Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Towards Molecular and Supramolecular Devices....Pages 1-8
Nanoscale Fabrication....Pages 9-16
Microminiaturization in Laser Surgery and in vivo Intradiscal Pressure Measurement in Intervertebral Discs....Pages 17-24
Self Replicating Systems and Low Cost Manufacturing....Pages 25-32
The Use of Actuation Principles for Micro Robots....Pages 33-40
Biophysical Approach to Nano-Mental Engineering’s Limits....Pages 41-48
IDEAS -Intelligent Design Environment for Algorithms and Systems....Pages 49-57
Electron-Nucleus Interaction in a Finite Atomic Line Modulated by a Focussed Electric Field....Pages 59-66
Electromagnetic Radiation in Nanostructures....Pages 67-74
Using Atom Optics to Fabricate Nanostructures....Pages 75-78
Limits to Squeezing of Quantum Fluctuations....Pages 79-87
Micromechanical Calorimeter with Picojoule-Sensitivity....Pages 89-95
The Point-Contact Thermometer and Its Application in the Study of Hydrodynamic Electron Flow....Pages 97-104
Noise in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 105-113
A Nanosensor for Admittance Spectroscopy....Pages 115-122
Nanodeformation - Solid or Liquid?....Pages 123-127
Theory of Conduction through Quantum Necks....Pages 129-137
A Scanning Force and Friction Microscope....Pages 139-145
Electrical Properties of Nanometer-Size Metal-Semiconductor Point Contacts....Pages 147-154
Study of Contact in the Fabrication of Gold Nanostructures by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy....Pages 155-162
Fabrication of Nanoscale Gold Contacts with the STM: Possible Applications....Pages 163-170
Suppression of electron tunneling through liquid crystal molecules due to infrared irradiation....Pages 171-179
Influence of Thickness Fluctuations on Exchange Coupling in Fe/Cr/Fe Structures....Pages 181-188
1→3 Dimensional Structures on a Uni-Directional Substrate....Pages 189-196
S-Layers as Molecular Patterning Structures....Pages 197-203
Formation of Sub-Micrometer Structures in Soft Functionalized Langmuir—Blodgett Films by Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 205-212
Individual Molecules on GaAs(001)-(2×4) and Si(001)-(2×1): Images, Statistics, and Modelling....Pages 213-220
Molecular Manufacturing....Pages 221-224
Self-Assembly: Whither and Thither Molecular Machines....Pages 225-228
Nanostructured Sensors for Molecular Recognition....Pages 229-229
Micromechanisms....Pages 231-234
Limits to Mechanical Positioning and Displacement Measurements....Pages 235-236
Is Quantum Mechanics Useful?....Pages 237-240
The Limit of Resistance....Pages 241-243
Nanocrystals and Nano-Optics....Pages 245-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-254