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| Preface | |
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| Preface to 1st Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Nanometers, Micrometers, Millimeters | |
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| Moore's Law | |
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| Esaki's Quantum Tunneling Diode | |
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| Quantum Dots of ManyColors | |
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| GMR 100Gb Hard Drive "Read" Heads | |
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| Accelerometers in your Car | |
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| Nanopore Filters | |
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| Nanoscale Elements in Traditional Technologies | |
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| Systematics of Making Things Smaller, Pre-quantum | |
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| Mechanical Frequencies Increase in Small Systems | |
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| Scaling Relations Illustrated by a Simple Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Scaling Relations Illustrated by imple Circuit Elements | |
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| Thermal Time Constants and Temperature Differences Decrease | |
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| Viscous Forces Become Dominant for Small Particles in Fluid Media | |
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| Frictional Forces can Disappear in Symmetric Molecular Scale Systems | |
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| What are Limits to Smallness?3.1 Particle (Quantum) Nature of Matter: Photons, Electrons, Atoms, Molecules | |
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| Biological Examples of Nanomotors and Nanodevices | |
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| Linear Spring Motors | |
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| Linear Engines on Tracks | |
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| RotaryMotors | |
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| Ion Channels, the Nanotransistors of Biology | |
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| How Small can you Make it?3.3.1 What are the Methods for Making Small Objects?3.3.2 How Can you See What you Want to Make?3.3.3 How Can you Connect it to the Outside World?3.3.4 If you Can't See it or Connect to it, Can you Make it Self-assemble and Work on its Own?3.3.5 Approaches to Assemblyof Small Three-dimensional Objects | |
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| Use of DNA Strands in Guiding Self-assemblyof Nanometer Size Structures | |
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| Quantum Nature of the Nanoworld | |
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| Bohr's Model of the Nuclear Atom | |
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| Quantization of Angular Momentum | |
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| Extensions of Bohr's Model | |
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| Particle-wave Nature of Light and Matter, DeBroglie Formulas k= h/p, E = hm | |
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| Wavefunction W for Electron, ProbabilityDensity Wa??W, Traveling and Standing Waves | |
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| Maxwell's Equations; E and B as Wavefunctions for Photons, Optical Fiber Modes | |
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| The Heisenberg UncertaintyPrinciple | |
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| Schrodinger Equation, Quantum States and Energies, Barrier Tunneling | |
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| Schrodinger Equations in one Dimension | |
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| The Trapped Particle in one Dimension | |
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| Reflection and Tunneling at a Potential Step | |
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| Penetration of a Barrier, Escape Time from a Well, Resonant Tunneling Diode | |
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| Trapped Particles in Two and Three Dimensions: Quantum Dot | |
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| 2D Bands and Quantum Wires | |
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| The Simple Harmonic Oscillator | |
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| Schrodinger Equation in Spherical Polar Coordinates | |
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| The Hydrogen Atom, One-electron Atoms, Excitons | |
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| Magnetic Moments | |
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| Magnetization and Magnetic Susceptibility | |
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| Positronium and Excitons | |
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| Fermions, Bosons and Occupation Rules | |
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| Quantum Consequences for the Macroworld | |
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| Chemical Table of the Elements | |
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| Nano-symmetry, Di-atoms, and Ferromagnets | |
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| Indistinguishable Particles, and their Exchange | |
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| The Hydrogen Molecule, Di-hydrogen: the Covalent Bond | |
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| More Purely Nanophysical Forces: van der Waals, Casimir, and Hydrogen Bonding | |
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| The Polar and van der Waals Fluctuation Forces | |
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| The Casimir Force | |
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| The Hydrogen Bond | |