nanometer
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Industries including semiconductor, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are seeking compact and reliable nanometer resolution positioning techniques.
- Bio-inspired ceramics, that can overcome the brittleness of ceramics, require building blocks with thickness of a few hundred nanometers.
- Nanotechnology is an emerging science involving manipulation of materials at the nanometer scale.
- One of the challenging aspects of science and technology on a nanometer-scale is the precise three-dimensional control of nano-objects.
- Optical tools for manipulation and trapping of micro- and nano-objects are a fundamental issue for many applications in nano- and biotechnology.
- Understanding physical phenomena at the molecular or even atomic level, comprehending exchange processes in the cells, and storing an increasing amount of data in smaller space are all fields of research that require technology not on the micrometer but on the nanometer scale.
- The structures of interfaces of nano- and microscale objects in an aqueous solution are important for a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological processes.
- Scanning probe microscopes are promising tools for fabrication of nanometer size structures (nanolithography) since the use of near field interactions avoids problems associated with conventional lithography techniques, like the restriction of the limit of minimum structure sizes by wavelengths, or diffraction phenomena.