Photoalignment possesses obvious advantages in comparison with the usually “rubbing” treatment of the substrates of liquid crystal display (LCD) cells. The liquid crystal photoalignment is nano-technology, as the thickness of the alignment layer is about 2-15 nm. The application of the photo-alignment and photo-patterning nano technology for the new generation of photonic and display devices wi...

Silicon transistors have undergone rapid miniaturization in the past several decades. Recently reported CMOS devices have dimensional scales approaching the “nano-transistor” regime. This paper discusses performance characteristics of a MOSFET device with 15 nm physical gate length. In addition, aspects of a non-planar CMOS technology that bridges the gap between traditional CMOS and the nano-t...

Nano science and technology is a new field of emergence in materials science and engineering, which forms the basis for evolution of novel technological materials. Nano technology finds application in various fields of science and technology. This article presents a critical review of the literature on the influence of nano silica in concrete and its application for the development of sustainab...

1 Fujitsu Limited and Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association 2 Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics (INQIE), The University of Tokyo 3 Fujitsu Limited and Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association 4 Fujitsu Laboratories Limited 5 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Facility of Engineering, Kobe University 6 Department ...

This book is a collection of existing articles together with several original contributions that “add to a slowly accumulating literature on Nanotechnology (NT) within the Science Technology and Society field”. That literature in turn reflects an emerging wave of NT products. All this is happening some 50 years after Richard Feynman’s famous speech at Caltech: “There’s plenty of room at the bot...

The essence of nanotechnology is the ability to work at the molecular level, atom by atom, to create large structures with fundamentally new molecular organization. Nanotechnology is concerned with materials and systems whose structures and components exhibit novel and significantly improved properties. These physical, chemical, and biological properties, processes and phenomena are novel due t...

a Nano Science and Nano Technology program and Physics Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. b KAUST-HKUST Micro/Nanofluidic Joint Laboratory, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. c Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. d Dalian Instit...