Nanotechnolgoy / G. Timp -- Nano-electronics for advanced computation and communication / G. Timp, R.E. Howard, and P.M. Mankiewich -- Nanostructures in motion: micro-instruments for moving nanometer-scale objects / N.C. MacDonald -- Limits of conventional lithography / D.M. Tennant -- Fabrication of atomically controlled nanostructures and their device application / H. Sakaki -- Chemical approaches to semiconductor nanocrystals and nanocrystal materials / Louis Brus -- Nanotechnology in carbon materials / M.S. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, and R. Saaito -- Self-assembly and self-assembled monolayers in micro- and nanofabrication / James L. Wilbur and George M. Whitesides -- Biocatalytic synthesis of polymers of precisely defined structures / Timothy J. Deming, Vincent P. Conticell, and David A. Tirrell -- Atom optics: using light to position atoms / Jabez J. McClelland and Mara Prentiss -- From the bottom up: building things with atoms / Don Eigler -- Physical properties of nanometer-scale magnets / David D. Awschalom and Stephan von Molnar -- Single electron transport through a quatum dot / leo P. Kouwenhoven and Paul L. McEuen -- Chaos in ballistic nanostructures / Harold U. Baranger, R.M. Westervelt -- Semiconducting and superconducting physics and devices in the InAs/AlSb materials system / Herbert Kroemer and Evelyn Hu.

This volume is a survey of the machinery and science of the nanometer scale. Its twenty-two contributing authors, drawn from many different disciplines including atomic physics, microelectronics, polymer chemistry, and bio-physics, delineate the course of current research and articulate a vision for the development of the nanometer frontiers in electronics, mechanics, chemistry, magnetics, materials, and biology.