Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking

• Nanomaterials with novel optical, electrical, and magnetic properties
• Faster and smaller non-silicon-based chipsets, memory, and processors
• New-science computers based on Quantum Computing
• Advanced microscopy and manufacturing systems
• Faster and smaller telecom switches, including optical switches
• Higher-speed transmission phenomena based on plasmonics and other quantum-level phenomena
• Nanoscale MEMS: micro-electro-mechanical systems

The author of this cutting-edge publication has played a role in the
development of actual nanotechnology-based communication systems. In this book, he examines a broad range of the science of nanotechnology and how this field will affect every facet of the telecommunications and computing industries, in both the near and far term, including:

• Basic concepts of nanotechnology and its applications
• Essential physics and chemistry underlying nanotechnology science
• Nanotubes, nanomaterials, and nanomaterial processing
• Promising applications in nanophotonics, including nanocrystals and nanocrystal fibers
• Nanoelectronics, including metal nanoclusters, semiconducting nanoclusters, nanocrystals, nanowires, and quantum dots

This book is written for telecommunications professionals, researchers, and students who need to discover and exploit emerging revenue-generating opportunities to develop the next generation of nanoscale telecommunications and network systems. Non-scientists will find the treatment completely accessible. A detailed glossary clarifies unfamiliar terms and concepts. Appendices are provided for readers who want to delve further into the hard-core science, including nanoinstrumentation and quantum computing.

Nanotechnology is the next industrial revolution, and the telecommunications industry will be radically transformed by it in a few years. This is the publication that readers need to understand how that transformation will happen, the science behind it, and how they can be a part of it.

source: John Wiley & Sons