Nanoscale Science and Technology

Nanowires.- Low Voltage Nonlinear Conductance of Gold Nanowires: Room Temperature Coulomb Blockade Effect?.- Simple Model for Force Fluctuations n Nanowires.- Real Time Control of Nanowire Formation.- Forces.- Forces in Scanning Probe Microscopy.- Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy by AFM Reveals Details of Polymer Structure.- Nanomagnetism.- Quantum Resonance of the Magnetisation in a Single-Crystal of Clusters in Mn12-Acetate.- Quantum Tunneling of the Magnetization in Nano-Scale Magnets.- Mesoscopic Systems.- Transport Mesoscopic Superconductors and Superconducting/Normal Metal Contacts.- Giant In-Plane Optical Anisotropy of Semiconductor Heterostructures with No-Common-Atom.- Strong Electron Tunneling in Mesoscopic Tunnel Junctions.- Spin Textures in Quantum Dots.- Photonics.- Theory of Near Field Optics: Surface Imaging by a Levitating Particle.- Photons and Local Probes.- Quo Vadis, Near Field Optics?.- Light Emission in Silicon Nanostructures.- Confined Electrons and Photons: A Domain where New Physical Phenomena, Device Concepts and Widescale Applications Converge.- Quantum Optics of Atomic Systems Confined in a Dielectric Environment.- Optical Properties on InP Quantum Wires Grown in Hollow Cylindrical Channels of Chrysotile Asbestos.- Clusters.- Metal Clusters and Atomic Nuclei.- Solid-Liquid Interfaces.- Nanoscale Probes of the Solid-Liquid Interface.- Special Issues: Microscopy and Particles.- The First 130 Years of Electron Microscopy: Focusing, Imaging, Spectroscopy and Lithography.- The Three Families of Elementary Particles.- Author Index.