NANOTECHNOLOGY Fundamentals, Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronics, Nanofabrication, and Applications in Next-Generation

NANOTECHNOLOGY: Fundamentals, Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronics, Nanofabrication, and Applications in Next-Generation Technologies (Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics)
English | October 12, 2026 | ASIN: B0HMRYW79X | 314 pages | Epub | 5.59 MB
Few fields have changed so many parts of science and engineering in so short a time as nanotechnology. Within a single working lifetime the subject has moved from a lecture delivered to a physics meeting in 1959 to the transistors inside the telephone in every pocket, the lipid nanoparticles that carried messenger RNA vaccines to billions of people, and the quantum dots that make a television screen glow with saturated colour. Two Nobel Prizes announced in the past three years - the 2023 Prize in Chemistry for quantum dots and the 2025 Prize in Chemistry for metal-organic frameworks - are reminders that the subject continues to be a source of fundamental discoveries as well as of technology.This book was written to give a student or a practising scientist a single, coherent path through that landscape. It begins with the physical and chemical ideas that make the nanoscale special - surface-to-volume ratio, quantum confinement, size-dependent optical, magnetic and thermal behaviour - and then follows the logic of the field: the materials (zero-, one- and two-dimensional, porous and composite), the ways in which they are made (bottom-up synthesis and top-down nanofabrication), the instruments with which they are seen and measured, the devices that are built from them (nanoelectronics, photonics, energy and biomedical systems), and the societal framework - safety, ethics, standards and regulation - within which these technologies must operate.Three principles guided the writing. First, fundamentals before fashion: every application chapter is anchored in the physics and chemistry developed earlier, so that the reader can reason about a new device rather than memorise a catalogue. Second, quantitative honesty: wherever a number is given it is a representative literature value, rounded appropriately, and wherever a figure is schematic it is labelled as such. Third, currency: the book reflects the state of the field as of late 2026, including the introduction of gate-all-around nanosheet transistors into volume manufacturing at the 2 nm class, the 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry that bear directly on this field, and the continuing maturation of quantum, neuromorphic and nano-enabled energy technologies.The book is organised in sixteen chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the history, scope and physical foundations. Chapters 3 to 5 survey nanomaterials. Chapters 6 to 8 deal with synthesis, nanofabrication and characterisation. Chapters 9 and 10 are devoted to nanoelectronics. Chapters 11 to 15 treat photonics and the principal application areas, ending with technologies that are likely to define the coming decades. Chapter 16 addresses safety, ethics, regulation and commercialisation, and closes with an outlook. Each chapter opens with learning objectives and closes with key points and review questions. A glossary, appendices of constants and units, and a list of selected references and further reading are included at the end.No textbook is ever finished, and a field that moves as quickly as this one outpaces any printed page. Readers are encouraged to treat the references as starting points and to consult the primary literature, the roadmaps of the semiconductor and materials communities, and the standards of bodies such as ISO and IEC for the latest information. Any errors that remain are the author's responsibility, and corrections and suggestions from readers will be gratefully received.