Atomic-Scale Modeling of Nanosystems and Nanostructured Materials

Understanding the structural organization of materials at the atomic scale is a lo- standing challenge of condensed matter physics and chemistry. By reducing the size of synthesized systems down to the nanometer, or by constructing them as collection of nanoscale size constitutive units, researchers are faced with the task of going beyond models and interpretations based on bulk behavior. Among the wealth of new materials having in common a "nanoscale" ngerprint, one can encounter systems intrinsically extending to a few nanometers (clusters of various compo- tions), systems featuring at least one spatial dimension not repeated periodically in space and assemblies of nanoscale grains forming extended compounds. For all these cases, there is a compelling need of an atomic-scale information combining knowledge of the topology of the system and of its bonding behavior, based on the electronic structure and its interplay with the atomic con gurations. Recent dev- opments in computer architectures and progresses in available computational power have made possible the practical realization of a paradygma that appeared totally unrealistic at the outset of computer simulations in materials science. This consists inbeing able to parallel (at least inprinciple) any experimental effort by asimulation counterpart, this occurring at the scale most appropriate to complement and enrich the experiment.

List of contents

Introduction.- Cluster and Molecules: Dynamics and Excitations.- Supported Nanostructures: Structural and Electronic Properties.- Spintronic Materials: Electronic and Magnetic Properties.- Liquid Crystals and Disordered Systems.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hervé Bulou (Editor), Christine Goyhenex (Editor), Carlo Massobrio (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2012
• EAN: 9783642262456
• ISBN: 978-3-642-26245-6
• No. of pages: 371
• Weight: 585 g
• Illustrations: X, 371 p. 100 illus.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Solid State Physics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Condensed matter, Materials / States of matter, Nanotechnology, Physics and Astronomy, Electronic Devices, Spectrum analysis, spectrochemistry, mass spectrometry, Interfaces (Physical sciences), Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Surface and Interface and Thin Film, Thin films, Surfaces (Physics), Engineering mathematics, Applied mathematics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering Applications, Maths for engineers, Microsystems and MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microengineering