Applied Physics and Materials Science

Nanoscale Physics

Nano-scale Physics is the study of a Nano scale system which is a structure with at least one dimension in nanometer scale. It straddles the differences between the molecular and the macroscopic. Nano scale particles are small enough to exhibit important characteristics of molecules but are large enough for their properties to be intended and controlled to meet human needs. The surfaces have a measurement on nanoscale which is called Nano textured surfaces. Nanoscale structure is most commonly called as ultrastructure. Due to the enhanced role of surface atoms with their unpaired spins and uncompensated bonds; the reduced dimensionality at the nanoscale; and quantum confinement and/or coherence effects, Physics at the nanometer scale is massively different from that of bulk materials.