Handbook of Surface and Nanometrology

This unique book explains and challenges current concepts in nanotechnology.

It covers in great detail surface metrology and nanometrology and more importantly the areas where they overlap, thereby providing a quantitative means of controlling and predicting processes and performance.

Trends and mechanisms are explained with numerous practical examples.

Bringing engineering and physics together at the nanoscale reveals some astonishing effects: geometric features such as shape change meaning; roughness can disappear altogether; signals from instruments have to be dealt with differently depending on scale.

These and other aspects are dealt with for the first time in this book.

It is relevant not only for today's technology but also for future advances.

Many aspects of nanotechnology and precision engineering are considered in chapters on manufacture, characterization, standardization, performance and instrumentation.

There is a special chapter on nanometrology and this subject permeates the whole book.

The "Handbook of Surface and Nanometrology" is the only book that covers these subject areas and is the definitive work in this field.Professor Whitehouse is the world authority on surface and nanometrology at a theoretical and practical level.

He is the author of the definitive Handbook of Surface Metrology (published in 1994).

This new book includes relevant material from the original Handbook as well as dealing with many subjects in nanotechnology, making it the natural modern successor.