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2. F.J. Himpsel, J.E. Ortega, G.J. Mankey, and R.F. Willis, "Magnetic nanostructures", Advances In Physics 47, 511-597 (1998). Excellent review and tutorial that discusses the fabrication, characterization, electronic and magnetic structure of 3D-, 2D-, 1D- and 0D-dimensional nanostructures in great detail.

 

3. G.A. Prinz, "Magnetoelectronics", Science 282, 1660-63 (1998).

 

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16. Dahl-Young Khang, Hanqing Huang, John A. Rogers, "A Stretchable Form of Single-Crystal Silicon for High Performance Electronics on Rubber Substrates", Science 311, 208 (2006).

 

17. Rudolf Hergt, Silvio Dutz, Robert Müller and Matthias Zeisberger, "Magnetic particle hyperthermia: nanoparticle magnetism and materials development for cancer therapy", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, S2919 (2006).

 

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A. Alec Talin, Luke L. Hunter, François Léonard, and Bhavin Rokad, "Large area, dense silicon nanowire array chemical sensors", Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 153102 (2006).

 

Jeong Young Park,†,§ Yawen Zhang,†,‡,§ Michael Grass,† Tianfu Zhang,† and Gabor A. Somorjai, "Tuning of Catalytic CO Oxidation by Changing Composition of Rh-Pt Bimetallic Nanoparticles", Nano Letters 8, 673 (2008).

 

James Hone, "Phonons and Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotubes", in Carbon Nanotubes: Topics Appl. Phys. 80, 273–286 (2001)(M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, Ph. Avouris (Eds.))(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001).

 

­ E. Muñoz, D.-S. Suh, S. Collins, M. Selvidge, A. B. Dalton, B. G. Kim, J. M. Razal, G. Ussery, A. G. Rinzler, M. T. Martínez, R. H. Baughman, "Highly Conducting Carbon Nanotube/Polyethyleneimine Composite Fibers", Adv. Mater. 17, 1064 (2005).

 

Feng Wang, Gordana Dukovic, Louis E. Brus, Tony F. Heinz, "The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons", Science 308, 838 (2005).

 

Rawiwan Laocharoensuk, Sirilak Sattayasamitsathit, Jared Burdick, Proespichaya Kanatharana, Panote Thavarungkul, and Joseph Wang, "Shape-Tailored Porous Gold Nanowires: From Nano Barbells to Nano Step- Cones", Acsnano 1, 403 (2007).

 

Candace K. Chan, Hailin Peng, Gao Liu, Kevin McIlwrath, Xiao Feng Zhang, Robert A. Huggins and Yi Cui, "High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires", nature nanotechn. 3, 31 (2008).

 

Liehui Ge, Sunny Sethi, Lijie Ci, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Ali Dhinojwala, "Carbon nanotube-based synthetic gecko tapes", PNAS 104, 10792 (2007).


Jiangbo Zhang, Ning Xi, and King Lai, "Single carbon nanotube infrared detectors", SPIE Newsroom, 10.1117/2.1200701.0514.

 

Coskun Kocabas, Hoon-sik Kim, Tony Banks, John A. Rogers, Aaron A. Pesetski, James E. Baumgardner, S. V. Krishnaswamy, and Hong Zhang , "Radio frequency analog electronics based on carbon nanotube transistors", PNAS 105, 1405 (2008).


M. R. Snow, A. Pring, P. Self, D. Losic, and J. Shapter, "The origin of the color of pearls in iridescence from nano-composite structures of the nacre", American Mineralogist 89, 1353 (2004).

 

Pradeep K. Rai1, A. Nicholas G. Parra-Vasquez, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Robert A. Pinnick, Feng Liang, Anil K. Sadana, Robert H. Hauge, W. Edward Billups3, and Matteo Pasquali, "Dispersions of Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Strong Acids:Solubility and Rheology", J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 7, 3378 (2007).

 

A. Zobelli, A. Gloter, C. P. Ewels, and C. Colliex, "Shaping single walled nanotubes with an electron beam", Phys. Rev. B 77, 045410 (2008).

 

David S. Hecht, Liangbing Hu, George Grüner, "Electronic properties of carbon nanotube/fabric composites", Current Applied Physics, 7, 60 (2007)

 

S.T. Purcell, P. Vincent, C. Journet, and Vu Thien Binh, "Hot Nanotubes: Stable Heating of Individual Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes to 2000 K Induced by the Field-Emission Current", Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 105502-1-4 (2002).

 

D.J. Monsma, J.C. Lodder, Th.J.A. Popma, and B. Dieny, "Perpendicular Hot Electron Spin-Valve Effect in a New Magnetic Field Sensor: The Spin-Valve Transistor", Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 5260-63 (1995).

 

K. Shigeto, T. Ono, H. Miyajima, and T. Shinjo, "GMR effect in a single trilayer wire with submicron width", J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 198-199, 58-60 (1999).

 

U. Ebels, A. Radulescu, Y. Henry, L. Piraux, and K.Ounadjela, "Spin Accumulation and Domain Wall Magnetoresistance in 35nm Co Wires", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 983-86 (2000).

 

T. Ono, H.Miyajima, K. Shigeto, K. Mibu, N. Hosoito, and T. Shinjo, "Propagation of the magnetic domain wall in submicron magnetic wire investigatged by using giant magnetoresistance effect", J. Appl. Phys. 85, 6181-83 (1999).

 

K. Matsumoto, M. Ishii, K. Segawa, Y. Oka, B.J. Vartanian, and J.S. Harris, "Room temperature operation of a single electron transistor made by the scanning tunneling microscope nanooxidation process for the TiOx/Ti system", Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 34-36 (1996).

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J.M. Kikkawa and D.D. Awschalom, "Lateral drag of spin coherence in gallium arsenide", Nature 397, 139-141 (1999).


R. Jansen, P.S. Anil Kumar, O.M.J. van't Erve, R. Vlutters, P. de Haan, and J.C. Lodder, "Thermal Spin-Wave Scattering in Hot-Electron Magnetotransport Across a Spin Valve", Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3277-3280 (2000).


J.A. Katine, F.J. Albert, and R.A. Buhrmann, "Current-induced realignment of magnetic domains in nanostructured Cu/Co multilayer pillars", Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 354-356 (2000).


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T. Shinjo, T. Okuno, R. Hassdorf, K. Shigeto, and T. Ono, "Magnetic Vortex Core Observation in Circular Dots of Permalloy", Science 289, 930-932 (2000).

W. Wernsdorfer, E. Bonet Orozco, B. Barbara, A. Benoit, and D. Mailly, "Classical and quantum magnetization reversal studied in single nanometer-sized particles and clusters using micro-SQUIDs", Physica B 280, 264-268 (2000).

S. Link and M. A. El-Sayed, "Shape and sized dependence of radiative, non-radiative and photothermal properties of gold nanocrystals", Intern. Rev. in Phys. Chem. 19, 409-453 (2000).

 

S.J. Oldenburg, J.B. Jackson, S.L. Westcott, and N.J. Halas, "Infrared extinction properties of gold nanoshells", Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 2897 (1999).

 

Philip G. Collins and Phaedon Avouris, "Nanotubes for Electronics", Scientific American, Dec. 2000, pp. 62-68. (62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68)

 

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H. Hiura, T. Miyazaki, and T. Kanayama, "Formation of Metal-Encapsulating Si Cage Clusters", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1733-1736 (2001).

 

D. Natelson, R.L. Willett, K.W. West, and L.N. Pfeiffer, "Geometry-Dependent Dephasing in Small Metallic Wires", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1821-1824 (2001).

 

C. Heide and R.J. Elliot, "Unified approach to the tunnel magnetorestistance and the non-equilibrium exchange interaction", Europhys. Lett. 50, 271-277 (2000).


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R.H. Koch, G. Grinstein, G.A. Keefe, Yu Lu, P.L. Trouilloud, W.J. Gallagher, and S.S.P. Parkin, "Thermally assisted magnetization reversal in submicron-sized magnetic thin films", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5419-5422 (200).

W. Wulfhekel, M. Klaua, D. Ullmann, F. Zavaliche, J. Kirschner, R. Urban, T. Monchesky, and B. Heinrich, C. Heide and R.J. Elliot, "Single-crystal magnetotunnel junctions", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 509-511 (2001).


W. Wulfhekel, H.F. Ding, and J. Kirschner, "High-resolution study of magnetization and susceptibility by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy", J. Appl. Phys. 87, 6475-6477 (2000).

 

M. Pothoff, and W. Nolting, "Dynamical mean-field study of the Mott transition in thin films", Eur. Phys. J. B 8, 555--568 (1999).

 

S.A. Solin, Tineke Thio, D.R. Hines, and J.J. Heremans, "Enhanced Room-Temperature Geometric Magnetoresistance in Inhomogeneous Narrow-Gap Semiconductors", Science 289, 1530-1532 (2000)

 

T. Zhou, D.R. Hines, and S.A. Solin, "Extraordinary magnetoresistance in externally shunted van der Pauw plates", Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 667-669 (2001).

 

Andreas Jordan, Regina Scholz, Peter Wust, Horst Fähling, and Roland Felix, "Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH): Cancer treatment with AC magnetic field induced excitation of biocompatible superparamagnetic nanoparticles", J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 201, 413-419 (1999).

 

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Here are a some books or articles you might like to consult during your journey in the nano-world:

 

Mark A. Reed, and Wiley P. Kirk, "Nanostructure Physics and Fabrication", Academic Press, 1989. Library of Congress Classification Schedules (LOCCS): QC 176.8 .E4 N32 1989.

 

Yoseph Imry, "Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics", Oxford University Press, 1997. LOCCS: QC176.8 .M46 I47 1997.

 

Wiley P. Kirk, and Mark A. Reed, "Nanostructures and Mesoscopic Systems", Academic Press 1992. LOCCS: QC176.8 .N35 N36 1992.


N. García, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, and H. Rohrer, "Nanoscale Sience and Technology", Kluver Academic Publishers, 1998. LOCCS: QC 176.8 .N35 N363 1998.

 

Claude Weisbuch, and Borge Winter, "Quantum Semiconductor Structures", Academic Press, New York, 1991. LOCCS: QC 611. W38 1991.

 

B.C. Crandall and James Lewis, "Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives", The MIT Press, Cambridge, M. E., 1992. LOCCS: T 174.7 .F67 1989.

 

M.E. Welland, and J.K. Gimzewski, "Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement", Kluver Academic Publishers, 1994. LOCCS: T 174.7 .U48 1995.

 

Hans Lüth, "Surfaces and Interfaces of Solids", Springer Verlag, 1993. LOCCS: QC 173.4 .S94 L88 1993.

 

Altan M. Ferendeci, "Physical Foundations of Solid State and Electron Devices", McGraw-Hill, 1991. LOCCS: QC 176 .F44 1991.

 

Andrew Zangwill, "Physics at Surfaces", Cambridge University Press 1988. LOCCS: QC173.4 .S94 Z36 1988.

 

Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin, "Solid State Physics", Saunders College Philadelphia 1976. LOCCS: QC176 A83 1976.

 

W. Kohn, "An essay on condensed matter physics in the twentieth century", Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S59 (1999).

 

W. Kohn, "Nobel Lecture: Electronic structure of matter -- wave functions and density functionals", Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 1253 (1999).

 

 

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The September 2001 issue of the Scientific American is a special issue on Nanotech with ten most interesting articles. Here are some selected articles, you can click on.

There are seven more articles, but to read those articles, you need to consult the hard copy in a library


o Little Big Science (G. Stix)
o Machine-Phase Nanotechnology (K.E. Drexler)
o The Once and Future Nanomachine (G.M. Whitesides)

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The IBM research lab in Almaden has built up a beautiful Web-site on moving atoms using a STM. You can visit their STM gallery by clicking here.

 

 

 

 Journals and databases

 

 

Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology  http://www.vjnano.org/

 

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology  http://www.aspbs.com/jnn/

 

Science Magazine  http://www.sciencemag.org/

 

Applied Physics Letters http://apl.aip.org/

 

Journal of Applied Physics  http://jap.aip.org/

 

Nanoletters  (ACS)  http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/toc.page?incoden=nalefd

 

Physical Review Letters  http://prl.aps.org/

 

Physical Review B  http://prb.aps.org/

 

Nature  http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

 

Nature Nanotechnology  http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html

 

Nature Materials  http://www.nature.com/nmat/index.html

 

Nature Biotechnology  http://www.nature.com/nbt/index.html

 

Small  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/107640323/home

 

Journal of Chemical Physics  http://jcp.aip.org/

 

Angewandte Chemie   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/26737/home

 

Advanced Functional Materials http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/77003362/home

 

EPL Europhysics Letters  http://epljournal.edpsciences.org/

 

Journal of Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites  http://www.jnpn.org/   abstr.

 

Optics Communications  http://www.biolc.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505711/description#description

 

ISI Web of Knowledge http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?Init=Yes&SID=2B2MCApJNIfD66bB9cK

 

Current contents database: http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=CCC&Func=Frame