Nano-Scale Materials: From Science to Technology

CONTENTS: STM-Based Nanopatterning of Silicon Nanoparticle Films; Novel Growth of Ag Islands on Si (111) Surfaces by MBE: Plateaus with Atomic Scale Preferred Heights; Rare Earth Gadolinium Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Induced Switching, Sensing And Storage Devices; Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Germanium Nanocrystals; Optical Properties of Nanocrystalline Gallium Nitride Films; Unique Properties of Nanostructured Semiconductors: Control of Size by Capping and Self-assembly by DNA; Constraint Theory Applied to Proteins; Tailoring the Magnetic Interactions of Monodisperse Nanoparticles; Structure, Chemical Order and Magnetism of Binary Co-4d(5d) Transition Metal Nanoparticles: Experiment and Theory; Structure and Magnetism in Iron Clusters; Collision-Induced Changes in the Electrical Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes; Atomic Scale Design of Nanostructures; Plasmon Exchange Model for Superconductivity in Carbon Nanotubes; Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Metal, Metal/Organic and Biological Cluster Anions; Experimental Studies on Plasmon Resonance of Ag Clusters; Fully Co-ordinated Silica Nanoclusters: Building Blocks for Novel Materials; Magnetic Coupling Between Cr Atoms: From Clusters to Thin Films; Energy Spectra and Electron Localisation in Quantum Rings and Dots; Quantum Point Contacts and Beyond: New Results on Mesoscopic Conductance And Fluctuations; Vibrational Response of Vanadium Oxide Nanotubes: Exploring Sheet Distance Effects and Variable Temperature Properties; Nanothermodynamics -- A Generic Approach to Material Properties at Nanoscale; Spin Swap and vs. Double Occupancy in Quantum Gates; Design and Properties of a Scanning EMR Probe Microscope; Synthesis and Characterisation of Nanofluid for Advanced Heat-Transfer Applications; Surface Studies of InP(111) after MeV Implantation; HgTe Nanoparticles and HgTe - ssDNA Nanostars: Novel Properties due to Size Quantisation Effect; Synthesis and Characterisation of Nanocrystalline CdS with Different Morphologies; Properties of GaAs Nanoparticles Synthesised by an Electrochemical Technique; Synthesis and Optical Properties of DNA Tagged CdSe; Effect of Thermal Annealing on the Properties of Nanocrystalline Lead Sulphide Films; Optical Characterisation of Nanoscale Materials; Electron Mobility in a InP/InxGa1-xAs Delta-doped Double Quantum Well System; Structural Transformation of CdS Nanoparticles upon Annealing; Cadmium Sulphide Nano Crystallites: TEM and UV-Visible Absorption Studies; Swift Heavy Ion Induced Morphological Changes in Nanocrystalline Ferrite Thin Films; Ion Beam Synthesis and Characterisation of Ge Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO2; Ion Irradiation Induced Effects in Metal Nanostructures; Evaluation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Nano Phases in the Bi - Sn System; Room Temperature Deposition of Carbon Nanotube Thin Films by Electrodeposition Technique; A Comparative study of Structure and Phonon Dynamics Single Wall Carbon and Boron Nitride Nanotubes; Tight-Binding Molecular Dynamics Study of Copper Clusters; Femto-second Laser Induced Melting of Silicon and Silicon Clusters; Field Electron Emission from Nanostructured a-GaN/Si (100)Films; Synthesis and Characterisation of Sb2O3 Cluster Assembled Nanostructured Thin Films; Optical Limiting in Ag Nanoclusters under Nonresonant Laser Excitation; Catalytic Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes from Acetylene using Alloy Hydride Materials as Catalysts and their Hydrogen Storage Properties; Influence of Impurity Atoms on the Structural & Electronic Properties of the Si10 Cluster; Index.