Understanding the nanotechnology revolution / by Edward L. Wolf, Manasa Medikonda.

Front Matter -- Discovery, Invention, and Science in Human Progress -- Smaller Is More, Usually Better, and Sometimes Entirely New! -- Systematics of Scaling Things Down: = 1 m? 1 nm -- Biology as Successful Nanotechnology -- The End of Scaling: The Lumpiness of All Matter in the Universe -- Quantum Consequences for the Macroworld -- Some Natural and Industrial Self-Assembled Nanostructures -- Injection Lasers and Billion-Transistor Chips -- The Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Scanning Tunneling Microscope Revolution -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Nanophysics of Spin ư -- Nanophysics and Nanotechnology of High-Density Data Storage -- Single-Electron Transistors and Molecular Electronics -- Quantum Computers and Superconducting Computers -- Looking into the Future -- Notes -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.