Prerequisites: ME 01H or consent of instructor
Description: An overview of the machinery and science of the nanometer scale. Topics include patterning of materials via scanning probe lithography; electron beam lithography; nanoim- printing; self-assembly; mechanical, electrical, mag- netic, and chemical properties of nanoparticles, nan- otubes, nanowires, and biomolecules (DNA, protein); self-assembled monolayers; and nanocomposites and synthetic macromolecules.