Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement

Towards Molecular and Supramolecular Devices.- Nanoscale Fabrication.- Microminiaturization in Laser Surgery and in vivo Intradiscal Pressure Measurement in Intervertebral Discs.- Self Replicating Systems and Low Cost Manufacturing.- The Use of Actuation Principles for Micro Robots.- Biophysical Approach to Nano-Mental Engineering’s Limits.- IDEAS — Intelligent Design Environment for Algorithms and Systems.- Electron-Nucleus Interaction in a Finite Atomic Line Modulated by a Focussed Electric Field.- Electromagnetic Radiation in Nanostructures.- Using Atom Optics to Fabricate Nanostructures.- Limits to Squeezing of Quantum Fluctuations.- Micromechanical Calorimeter with Picojoule-Sensitivity.- The Point-Contact Thermometer and Its Application in the Study of Hydrodynamic Electron Flow.- Noise in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.- A Nanosensor for Admittance Spectroscopy.- Nanodeformation — Solid or Liquid?.- Theory of Conduction through Quantum Necks.- A Scanning Force and Friction Microscope.- Electrical Properties of Nanometer-Size Metal-Semiconductor Point Contacts.- Study of Contact in the Fabrication of Gold Nanostructures by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.- Fabrication of Nanoscale Gold Contacts with the STM: Possible Applications.- Suppression of Electron Tunneling through Liquid Crystal Molecules due to Infrared Irradiation.- Influence of Thickness Fluctuations on Exchange Coupling in Fe/Cr/Fe Structures.- l?3 Dimensional Structures on a Uni-Directional Substrate.- S-Layers as Molecular Patterning Structures.- Formation of Sub-Micrometer Structures in Soft Functionalized Langmuir-Blodgett Films by Atomic Force Microscopy.- Individual Molecules on GaAs(001)-(2×4) and Si(001)-(2×1): Images, Statistics, and odelling.- Extended Abstracts of Invited Papers.-Molecular Manufacturing.- Self-Assembly: Whither and Thither Molecular Machines.- Nanostructured Sensors for Molecular Recognition.- Micromechanisms.- Limits to Mechanical Positioning and Displacement.- Is Quantum Mechanics Useful?.- The Limit of Resistance.- Nanocrystals and Nano-Optics.