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This text points out directions for future research in such different subjects as photonic band gap crystals, semiconductor quantum dot and wire lasers, silicon optoelectronics, carbon-based nanostructure physics, polymer based nano-composite and quantum wires, DNA nano-technology and silicon bio-compatibility, nano-scale optical characterisation, spray and cluster deposition, self assembly, imprint technology, quantum computing and quantum dot-based computation.

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Author:   Lorenzo Pavesi ,  Eugenia V. Buzaneva
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.920kg
ISBN:  

9780792367451

ISBN 10:   0792367456
Pages:   475
Publication Date:   31 December 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. Fundamentals of Nano-Scale Science for Photonics applications.- Nanophotonics: nanoscale optical science and technology.- Three-dimensional nanostructures with electron and photon confinement.- Dielectric-polymer nanocomposite and thin film photonic crystals: Towards three-dimensional photonic crystals with a bandgap in the visible spectrum.- Quantum wires and quantum dots for optoelectronics: recent advances with epitaxial growth on nonplanar substrates.- Quantum dot lasers.- II. Low dimensional silicon for photonics.- Nanostructured silicon as an active optoelectronic material.- Silicon light emitters: Preparation, properties, limitations and integration with microelectronic circuitry.- Visible light emission from a new material system: Si/SiO2 superlattices in optical microcavities.- Silicon nanostructures in Si/SiO2 superlattices for light emission applications: possibilities and limits.- First principles optical properties of low dimensional silicon structures.- Silicon nanostructures and their interactions with erbium ions.- III. Biomolecular Technologies.- Nicks, nodes, and new motifs for DNA nanotechnology.- Interaction of biomaterials with porous silicon.- IV. Molecular-Scale Engineering: polymers and carbon-based nanostructures.- Polydiacetylene PTS: a molecular quantum wire with exceptional optical properties.- The electronic structure of carbon-based nanostructures: fullerenes, onions and tubes.- Carbon nanostructure: characterization by optics and resonance Raman scattering.- Encapsulation of Transition Metals into Carbon Nanoclusters.- V. New technologies for producing nano- systems.- Development of coating technologies using nano particles.- Surface atomic scale engineering by deposition of mass selected clusters: STM and helium scattering analysis.- Visible and infrared photoluminescence from deposited germanium-oxide clusters and from Ge nanocrystals.- New directions in nanotechnology: Imprint techniques.- Self-assembly of nanoblocks and molecules in optical thin-film nanostructures.- VI. Nano- and Molecular-Scale Characterization.- Soft X-ray spectroscopy as a probe of the electronic structure of nanostructured solids..- Optical spectroscopy of carrier relaxation and transport in III/V semiconductor structures.- Near-field scanning optical spectroscopy of quasi-one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures.- Optical characteristics of nanostructured III-V compounds.- Scanning probe microscopy (STM, AFM) investigation of carbon nanotubes.- Molecular spectroscopy of nanoparticles.- VII. Novel Circuit Architecture of Nano-Optoelectronic Systems.- Exploring the ultimate limits of control: Quantum networks for non-classical information processing.- Chaos in quantum machines.- Problems and perspectives in quantum-dot based computation.- List of Participants.

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