Basics Of Nanotechnology

"Developed from courses on nanophysics and nanotechnology, this textbook is a surface-bound approach to nanostructures, methods of growth and manipulation, characterization methods with a focus on optical analyzing methods and nanooptics, a discussion of nanoarchitectures and exemplary applications in optics, electronics, quantum computers, molecular nanostructures, biology and soft matter. With its wide range of problems to test the reader's understanding, it is primarily aimed at graduate students with a basic knowledge of solid state physics, but can be equally used as a reference for professionals in physics, chemistry and materials science working on nanosystems, soft matter or biophysical matters."--Jacket.