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Importance of Nanosensors: Feynman's Vision and the Birth of Nanotechnology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Jozef T. Devreese
Jozef T. Devreese*
Affiliation:
[email protected], Universiteit Antwerpen, TFVS, Departement Fysica, Groenenborgerlaan 171, Antwerpen, 2020, Belgium, +32-478-489189, +32-3-6520206
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Abstract

In his visionary 1959 lecture at Caltech, Feynman envisaged the potential of the ability to manipulate matter at the atomic scale. I discuss implementations of Feynman's vision in the field of nanosensors and perspectives of its further development and applications.

Keywords

sensornanoscalenanostructure
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 952: Symposium F – Integrated Nanosensors , 2006 , 0952-F01-01
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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