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Abbreviations

Scanning tunneling microscope (STM):

A nano‐technology instrument capable of imaging the topography of conducting surfaces with atomistic resolution. It can also be used to manipulate individual atoms and molecules, and construct nano‐scale structures.

Atomic force microscope (AFM):

A nano‐technology instrument for investigation of material surfaces on atomistic and molecular scales. It can be used to map the topography of non‐conducting surfaces, by sensing the inter‐atomic forces, and produce three‐dimensional images of these surfaces.

Spintronics:

Refers to the field of spin‐based electronics rather than charge‐based electronics. It will lead to a new type of device that is based on the use of electron spin for transfer and storage of information.

Brillouin zone:

In solid state physics several Brillouin zones can be defined. The first zone is defined as the Wigner–Seitz primitive cell of the reciprocal lattice. The nth Brillouin zone is defined as the set of points that are reached from the origin by crossing \( { (n - 1) } \) Bragg planes.

Monte Carlo (MC) method:

In computational modeling, this method provides a probabilistic scheme for solving a variety of problems by employing powerful sampling techniques. In nano‐science and condensed matter physics, one application of this method is for computing the minimum energy state of a nano‐structure.

Stochastic dynamics (SD) method:

This refers to the computer simulation method wherein the Langevin equation of motion, describing the random behavior of a particle, is solved as opposed to the deterministic MD method in which Newton's equations of motion are solved.

Nano‐electromechanical systems (NEMS):

These are nano‐technology based systems that are the smaller versions of the micro‐electromechanical systems (MEMS). They are capable of measuring small displacements, sensing minute amount of substances, and performing rotary motions. NEMS can be constructed via either the top‐down approach, i. e., via miniaturization of the micro‐scale devices, or via the bottom‐up approach, i. e., by positioning single atoms or molecules so that a complex and functional nano‐system is built from below the nano‐scale.

Ab initio approach:

This is the first‐principles approach to the computation of the properties, especially the electronic‐structure properties, of nano‐scale systems using quantum‐mechanical concepts and methods. In this method, the structure of a molecule, for instance, is obtained purely from a knowledge of its composition by solving the Schrödinger equation.

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Rafii-Tabar, H. (2009). Carbon Nanotubes, Thermo-mechanical and Transport Properties of. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_46

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