This extended and revised edition of the successful German version is a clearly structured and easily readable introduction, written by an experienced author with sound knowledge of experimental fabrication and characterization of nanostructures. Developed from courses on nanophysics and nanotechnology, this textbook is a surface–bound approach to nanostructures, methods of growth and manipulation, characterization methods with a focus on optical analyzing methods and nanooptics, a discussion of nano–architectures and exemplary applications in optics, electronics, quantum computers, molecular nanostructures, biology and soft matter. With its wide range of problems to test the reader?s understanding, it is primarily aimed at graduate students with a basic knowledge of solid state physics, but can be equally used as a reference for professionals in physics, chemistry and materials science working on nanosystems, soft matter or biophysical matters. Revised and updated...
