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quantum mechanics
Miller indices 83, 95
62, 115
quantum numbers
molecular beam epitaxy 123, 153
quantum physics 19
molecular electronics 15, 207
quantum point contact
64
molecular interactions
quantum tunneling
molecular machines
89
quantum well 45, 119
molecular orbital
65
Moore’s Law 3, 203
quantum wires 44, 119, 134
88
motif
53
radial wavefunction
nanobot
28
Rayleigh criterion 161
nanofabrication
Rayleigh regime 192
159
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nanometre
Rayleigh scheme
115
27
nanorobots
reflection coefficient 48
repulsive barrier 104
109
nanostructures
159
nanotools
resistivity 122
195
nanotubes
resolution 160, 161, 162
non-contact mode 189
resolving power 163
numerical aperture 162
resonance frequencies 20
reverse micelles 106
126
Ohm’s law
Reynolds Number
24
ohmic
122
Robert Brown 25
optical microscope 160
rotaxane
89
optical microscopy 159
optical tweezers
190, 191
scanning electron microscope
optoelectronics 124
162
organic electronics 207
scanning electron microscopy
organic light-emitting diodes
163
207
scanning probe microscopes 177
Ostwald ripening 98
scanning probe microscopy 176
scanning tunneling microscope
particle in a box 114, 115
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particle in a potential box 38
scanning tunneling microscopy
patterned laser beams
194
178
Pauli exclusion principle 110,
scanning tunneling spectroscopy
113
186
periodic table of elements 62 RPS: PSP0007 - Science-at-Nanoscale 47 125 Index 213 index
scattering force 191
phase relaxation length 126
Schr¨odinger equation 37, 61
photoelectric effect 33, 34
secondary electrons 169
Planck radiation 113
selected area electron diffraction
plastic electronics 207
176
polyethylene 87
self-assembled monolayers 153
polymerisation 87
self-assembly processes 88
polymer 86
self-assembly 88, 150
polyvinyl alcohol 149
semiconductor nanoparticles
potential barrier 45, 47
132
potential step 45
semiconductors 110
quantised resistance 127 SEM 164
quantum dots 43, 119, 129, 132 Si(111)-(7 × 7) 97
quantum Hall effect 124 single electron transistor 130