Of science and small things: recollections of the past twenty(-)odd years

Title: Of science and small things: recollections of the past twenty(-)odd years
Creator: Botha, J. R
Subject: Nanoscience
Subject: Nanotechnology
Subject: f-sa
Type: text
Type: Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20867
Identifier: vital:29409
Description: I will start, therefore, with an overview of achievements in a “new” field of endeavour, a science of small things, popularly called nanoscience, and its spin-off called nanotechnology. I will present a brief history, look at the approaches that have been followed by scientists and engineers to develop and understand small things, and summarise some of the benefits to society in terms of new materials and processes, energy storage and generation, electronics, environmental applications, medicine and transportation. Since our own research focuses on the development on semiconductors, I will conclude the scientific part of the presentation by considering the contribution of semiconductors to the development of nanotechnology and highlight a few examples from our own research during the past two decades on the development of nano-scale semiconductor structures, like nanorods, quantum wells and superlattices.
Format: 48 pages
Publisher: Nelson Mandela University
Publisher: Faculty of Science
Language: English
Relation: Inaugural lectures
Relation: Inaugural lectures May 2013
Rights: Nelson Mandela University

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