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1845 About the Authors Chong H. Ahn Chapter B.19 Authors University of Cincinnati Dr. Chong Ahn is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical University of Cincinnati. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from and Computer Engineering the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow and Computer Science at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include all aspects of Cincinnati, OH, USA [email protected] design, fabrication, and characterization of magnetic MEMS devices, microfluidic devices, protein chips, lab-on-a-chips, nano biosensors, point-of-care testing and BioMEMS systems. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal. Boris Anczykowski Chapter C.27 nanoAnalytics GmbH Dr. Boris Anczykowski is a physicist with an extensive research background in the Münster, Germany field of dynamic Scanning Force Microscopy. He co-invented the Q-Control technique [email protected] and received the Innovation Award Münsterland for Science and Economy in 2001 for this achievement. He is a managing director and co-founder of nanoAnalytics GmbH, a company specialized in the characterization of surfaces and interfaces on the micro- and nanometer scale. Massood Z. Atashbar Chapter A.7 Western Michigan University Professor Massood Z. Atashbar received the B.Sc. degree in electrical Department of Electrical engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and Computer Engineering the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Kalamazoo, MI, USA Technology, Tehran, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of [email protected] Communication and Electronic Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 1998. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Electronic Engineering and Acoustic Materials, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. His research interests include physical and chemical microsensors development, wireless sensors, and applications of nanotechnology in sensors, digital electronics, advanced signal processing, and engineering education. Wolfgang Bacsa Chapter A.3 University of Toulouse III (Paul Sabatier) Professor Wolfgang Bacsa is an expert in the emerging field of Laboratoire de Physique des Solides nanooptics and carbon nanotubes. He has a Ph.D. from the Swiss (LPST), UMR 5477 CNRS Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Physics and has Toulouse Cedex, France extensive experience in condensed matter physics, optics, microscopy, [email protected]; [email protected] synthesis of ultrathin films and nanostructured carbon. Professor Bacsa worked at the ETH Zürich, PennState University and EPFL Lausanne. 1846 About the Authors William Sims Bainbridge Chapters H.57, H.58 Division of Information, Science William Sims Bainbridge earned his doctorate from Harvard University. He is the and Engineering author of 11 books, 4 textbook-software packages, and about 180 shorter publications National Science Foundation in information science, social science of technology, and the sociology of culture. His Arlington, VA, USA software employed innovative techniques to teach theory and methodology: [email protected] Experiments in Psychology, Sociology Laboratory, Survey Research, and Social Authors Research Methods and Statistics. He is the editor of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction and author of the forthcoming God from the Machine, a study using artificial intelligence techniques to understand religious belief. Most recently, he co-edited Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, which explores the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science, and he is currently editing the next book in the Converging Technologies series. At the National Science Foundation since 1992, he represented the social and behavioral sciences on five advanced technology initiatives: High Performance Computing and Communications, Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence, Digital Libraries, Information Technology Research, and Nanotechnology, before joining the staff of the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. Currently, he is director of NSF’s Science and Engineering Informatics program, after having directed the Sociology, Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence programs, and a member of the faculty of George Mason University. Antonio Baldi Chapter A.7 Centro National Microelectrónica Professor Antonio Baldi is a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the CNM-IMB, Spain. He Institut de Microelectronica received his BS degree in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat de Barcelona (IMB) Politècnica de Catalunya, (1996) and his Ph.D. degree on electronics engineering from (CNM-CSIC) the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2001. From 2001 to 2003 he was at the Barcelona, Spain [email protected] University of Minnesota working in the field of bioMEMS as a postdoctoral fellow. In the summer of 2003 he joined the Chemical Transducers Group (GTQ), at the Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, where he works on the development of microsystems and instrumentation for chemical and biochemical sensing. Philip D. Barnes Chapter B.17 Columbus, OH, USA Phillip D. Barnes is completing his doctorate in biomedical engineering [email protected] at The Ohio State University. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from The Ohio State University in 2001 and 2004, respectively. James Batteas Chapter D.32 Texas A&M University James Batteas is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M Department of Chemistry University. He received his PhD in Chemistry in 1995 from UC College Station, TX, USA Berkeley. Research in his group includes studies of charge transport in [email protected] organic molecules on surfaces, tribological properties of oxide surfaces and self-assembled monolayers, self-organizing nanoscale materials for device applications, plant biopolymers, and nanofabrication approaches for the development of electronic and sensing architectures. Roland Bennewitz Chapter D.33 McGill University Roland Bennewitz studied physics in Freiburg and Berlin where he received his PhD Physics Department for work on defects at surfaces of insulators. He is now assistant at the University of Montreal, QC, Canada Basel where his research activities focus on high-resolution force microscopy as a tool [email protected] in nanotribology and surface science. About the Authors 1847 Bharat Bhushan Chapters 1, C.22, D.29, D.34, D.38, D.40, D.41, E.42, E.43, E.44, G.50 The Ohio State University Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Nanotribology Laboratory Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, a Graduate Research Faculty for Information Storage Advisor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Director of / and MEMS NEMS the Nanotribology Laboratory for Information Storage and MEMS/NEMS (NLIM) at Columbus, OH, USA the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He holds two M.Sc., a Ph.D. in [email protected] Authors mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and three semi-honorary and honorary doctorates. His research interests are in micro/nanotribology and its applications to magnetic storage devices and MEMS/NEMS (Nanotechnology). He has authored 5 technical books, 45 handbook chapters, more than 450 technical papers in referred journals, and more than 60 technical reports, edited more than 25 books, and holds 14 U.S. patents. Dr. Bhushan has previously worked for the R and D Division of Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY; the Technology Services Division of SKF Industries Inc., King of Prussia, PA; the General Products Division Laboratory of IBM Corporation, Tucson, AZ; and the Almaden Research Center of IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA. Gerd K. Binnig Chapter F.46 IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Gerd Binnig obtained his Ph.D. from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Micro-/Nanomechanics University, Frankfurt, Germany, and joined IBM Research in 1978. He Rüschlikon, Switzerland was corecipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of [email protected] the scanning tunnelling microscope, and he also invented the atomic force microscope. His current research interests are micro- and nanosystem techniques and “Fractal Darwinism”, a theory he developed to describe complex systems. Marcie R. Black Chapter A.4 Massachusetts Institute Marcie Black recently received her Ph.D. from Prof. Dresselhaus’s of Technology research group at MIT studying the optical properties of nanowires. In Department of Electrical Engineering particular, she identified the dominant optical absorption mechanism in and Computer Science the IR of bismuth nanowires as an indirect interband transition that is Cambridge, MA, USA [email protected] enhanced over bulk bismuth. Currently she is studying organic opto-electronics with an emphasis on photovoltaics. Maarten P. de Boer Chapter D.32 Sandia National Laboratories Maarten P. de Boer received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of MEMS Devices and Reliability Physics Minnesota in 1996 studying thin film adhesion. He is now a Principal Member of the Department MEMS Devices and Reliability Physics Department, Sandia National