Fall 2003
Instructor: Professor Stephen O'Brien
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

The science and engineering of creating materials, functional structures and devices on the nanometer scale. Carbon nanotubes, nanocrystals, quantum dots, properties of materials as a function of size, self-assembly, nanostructured materials. Nanoscale films and composites. Devices and applications. The "top down" manufacturing paradigm; prospects for the future. Molecular engineering, molecular electronics, nanofabrication, bionanotechnology. Imaging and manipulating at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology in industry.