Optical Microscopy, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ion Microscopy and Nanofabrication -- Confocal Scanning Optical Microscopy and Nanotechnology -- Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy in Nanosciences -- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy -- Visualization of Nanostructures with Atomic Force Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy for Nanoscale Manipulation and Patterning -- Scanning Thermal and Thermo…
Structure Formation in Polymer Films From Micrometer to the sub-100 nm Length Scales -- Functional Nanostructured Polymers Incorporation of Nanometer Level Control in Device Design -- Electronic Transport through Self-Assembled Monolayers -- Nanostructured Hydrogen-Bonded Rosette Assemblies Self-Assembly and Self-Organization -- Self-Assembled Molecular Electronics -- Multivalent Ligand-Recepto…
Experimental Techniques -- Elasticity -- Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions -- Acoustic Waves in the Presence of Magnetic Ions -- Ultrasonics at Magnetic Phase Transitions -- Ultrasonics at Structural Transitions -- Metals and Semiconductors -- Unstable Moment Compounds -- Ultrasonics in Superconductors -- Coupling to Collective Excitations -- Ultrasonics in Low Dimensional Spin and Electroni…
Summary of Optical Data Storage and the Future Trend -- Basic Theory of Optical Near-Field and Surface Plasmon Polaritons -- Near-Field Recording and Its Actual Methods -- Role of Surface Plasmons in Optical Disc -- Epilogue.This textbook is written for all those wishing to understand the concepts behind modern optical recording. It also paves the way towards the future science and technology b…
Nonlinear Propagation Theory for Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses beyond the Slowly-Varying-Envelope Approximation (SVEA) -- Generation of Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Active Chirp Compensation for Ultrabroadband Optical Pulses -- Amplitude and Phase Characterization of Few-to-Mono Optical-Cycle Pulses -- Feedback Field Control for Optical Pulse Generation in the Monocycle Region -- Field M…
Theory -- Foundations of Molecular Electronics – Charge Transport in Molecular Conduction Junctions -- AC-Driven Transport Through Molecular Wires -- Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanomolecular Systems -- Ab-initio Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function Formalism for Calculating Electron Transport in Molecular Devices -- Tight-Binding DFT for Molecular Electronics (gDFTB) -- Current-Induc…
Magnetoelectronics -- Electrical Spin Injection into Semiconductors -- Optical Studies of Electron Spin Transmission -- to Micromagnetics -- Spin Valve Giant Magnetoresistive Sensor Materials for Hard Disk Drives -- Magnetic Switching in High-Density MRAM -- Giant Magneto-resistive Random-Access Memories Based on Current-in-Plane Devices.The ability to understand and control the unique properti…
Electron Transport in Magnetic Multilayers -- Spin Polarized Electron Tunneling -- Interlayer Exchange Coupling -- Spin Relaxation in Magnetic Metallic Layers and Multilayers -- Nonequilibrium Spin Dynamics in Laterally Defined Magnetic Structures -- Polarised Neutron Reflection Studies of Thin Magnetic Films -- X-ray Scattering Studies of Ultrathin Metallic Structures.The ability to understand…
Material Science -- Resumé of Semiconductor Physics -- Realisation of Potential Barriers -- Electronic Device Principles -- Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors - HBTs -- Hetero Field Effect Transistors (HFETs) -- Tunneling Phenomena -- Optoelectronics -- Integration -- Outlook.Quantum size effects are becoming increasingly important in microelectronics as the dimensions of the structures shrin…
Electronic Scale -- Atomistic Scale -- Mesoscale/Continuum Methods -- Mathematical Methods -- Rate Processes -- Crystal Defects -- Microstructure -- Fluids -- Polymers and Soft Matter -- Plenary Perspectives.The first reference of its kind in the rapidly emerging field of computational approachs to materials research, this is a compendium of perspective-providing and topical articles written to…