Keine Frage: Nanomaterialien gehören momentan zu den" hot topics", und zwar sowohl in
der Forschung als auch in der Industrie. Dieses Handbuch vereinigt die Expertisen …

Surface science has evolved from being a sub-field of chemistry or physics, and has now
established itself as an interdisciplinary topic. Knowledge has developed sufficiently that we …

The engineering of highly organized systems from instructed molecular building blocks
opens up new vistas for the control of matter and the exploration of nanodevice concepts …

The Handbook of Surface and Nanometrology explains and challenges current concepts in
nanotechnology. It covers in great detail surface metrology and nanometrology and more …

The advancement of electrode materials plays a pivotal role in enhancing the performance
of energy storage devices, thereby meeting the escalating need for energy storage and …

The prospect of manipulating matter on the atomic scale has fascinated scientists for
decades. This fascination may be motivated by scientific and technological opportunities, or …

Atomic and molecular size devices are the ultimate goal of those working on, for example,
nanoscale patterning and templating techniques. The various approaches to nanophase …

The never‐ending race towards miniaturization of devices induced an intense research in
the manufacturing processes of the components of those devices. However, the complexity …

An ultimate goal of spintronic research is the realization of concepts for atomic-scale all-spin–
based devices. We combined bottom-up atomic fabrication with spin-resolved scanning …

Abstract Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Crystalline Solids: 1. Atomic structure of
crystals; 2. The single-particle approximation; 3. Electrons in crystal potential; 4. Band …