STUDY OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND FABRICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES

These factors play roles to various degrees (but not 100%) of importance. For example, the confinement and the coherent effects are not as complete as that in an atom. Both the crystalline (bulk) states and the surface/interface states cannot be ignored in nanoscale structures. The different mixture of atomic/molecular, mesoscopic and macroscopic characters make the properties of nanostructures vary dramatically. Nanostructural materials are often in a metastable state. Their detailed atomic configuration depends sensitively on the kinetic processes in which they are fabricated. Therefore, the properties of nanostructures can be widely adjustable by changing their size, shape and processing conditions.