Objective
With the enormous progress in the miniaturisation of electronic and mechanical components we are reaching the regime where fundamental quantum physics plays a role on the scale of the devices themselves. E.g. the lateral dimension of a simple switch within a highly integrated circuit can be as small as about 100 nm, i.e. the order of the Fermi wavelength lambda_F of a semiconducting medium. As devices become smaller, even the Fermi wavelengths of metals (100 times smaller) will play a role. A metallic constriction to about 1 nm would induce an energy level splitting in the eV range, which will clearly remain present at room temperature. Particles in the size range of 1 nm are called clusters. In the past decade it could be shown that metal, semiconductor, and carbon clusters exhibit very pronounced electronic, magnetic, optical, and chemical properties, which decisively depend on the exact number of atoms. It is this pronounced size effect, which makes the clusters interesting as new functional objects. The two proposed conferences will be high-level scientific meetings on the physics and technology of clusters and nanoparticles. Whereas the first conference is thought to concentrate on the functionality of single clusters, the second one will introduce a higher level of complexity, i.e. it treats interacting systems of clusters and nanotubes. In both cases the strong relations to technical applications will be a major issue.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences quantum physics
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics semiconductivity
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
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France
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