Nanoscale Devices - Fundamentals and Applications

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributing Authors -- SCIENCE AGAINST NONTRIVIAL THREAT -- Ch. Surface Acoustic Wave Studies for Chemical and Biological Sensors -- Ch. The Experience of Utilizing the Explosives Detection System on the Basis of Neutron Radiation Analysis Together with X-Ray Units at the Airport "Pulkovo" in St.-Petersburg -- Ch. Thermodynamic Principles of Artificial Nose Based on Supramolcular Receptors -- Ch. Molecular Detection with Magnetic Labels and Magnetoresistive Sensors -- WEAK MAGNETIC FIELDS DETECTION TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES -- Ch. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Based on Half-Metallic Oxides -- Ch. MEMS Tunable Dielectric Resonator -- Ch. Ultra-Thin Spin-Valve Structures Grown on the Surface-Reconstructed GaAs Substrate -- NOVEL IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVICES -- Ch. Negative U Molecular Quantum Dot -- Ch. Configuring a Bistable Atomic Switch by Repeated Electrochemial Cycling -- Ch. Realization of an N-Shaped IVC of Nanoscale Metallic Junctions Using the Antiferromagnetic Transition -- PI-SHIFT EFFECT AND FERROMAGNET/SUPERCONDUCTOR NANOSCALE DEVICES -- Ch. Josephson Effect in Composite Junctions with Ferromagnetic Materials -- Ch. Depairing Currents in Bilayers of Nb/Pd89Ni11 -- Ch. Superconductor-Ferromagnet Heterostructures -- Ch. Superconducting/Ferromagnetic Nanostructures: Spin Fluctuations and Spontancous Supercurrents -- COHERENCE EFFECTS IN F/S AND N/F NANOSTRUCTURES -- Ch. Proximity Effect and Interface Transparency in Nb-based S/N and S/F Layerd Stuctures -- Ch. Properties of S/N Multilayers with Different Geometrical Symmetry -- Ch. Andreev Reflection in Ballistic Superconductor-Ferromagnet Contacts -- Ch. Superconductor-Insulator Transition in a PbZSn1-Z Te: In Solid Solution -- ADVANCED SENSORS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION -- Ch. Thermoelectricity of Low-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials -- Ch.Organic Semiconductors -- More Efficient Material for Thermoelectric Infrared Detectors -- Ch. Submillimeter Radiation-Induced Persistent Photoconductivity in Pb1-xSnxTe(In) -- Ch. Quasioptical Terahertz Spectrometer Based on a Josephson Oscilator and a Cold Elecion Nanobolometer -- NOVEL MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS -- Ch. Origin of the Resistive Transition Broadening for Superconducting Magnesium Diboride -- Ch. Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Single Bi Nanowires -- Ch. Some Application of Nanocarbon Materials for Novel Devices -- NANOMATERIALS AND DOMAINS -- Ch. Nanocrystalline Iron-Rare Earth Alloys: Exchange Interactions and Magnetic properties -- Ch. The Influence of Applied Field on the Nucleation and Growth of Heteroepitaxial Carbon Films -- Last Page.