Nanoscale Devices - Fundamentals and Applications

Contents. Preface.Acknowledgments. Contributing Authors. Science against nontrivial Threat. Surface Acoustic Wave Studies for Chemical and Biological Sensors; A. Muller et al.-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; Y. Olshansky et al.-Thermodynamic Principles of Artificial Nose Based on Supramolecular Receptors; V. V.Gorbatchuk, M A. Ziganshin.-Molecular Detection with Magnetic Labels and Magnetoresistive Sensors; J. Schotter et al.- Weak Magnetic Fields Detection Techniques and Devices. Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Based on Half-Metallic Oxides; R. Gross.-MEMS Tunable Dielectric Resonator; G. Panaitov et al.-Ultra-Thin Spin-Valve Structures Grown on the Surface-Reconstructed GaAs Substrate; B. Aktac et al.-Novel Ideas and Principles of Devices. Negative U Molecular Quantum Dot; A. S. Alexandrov.-Configuring a Bistable Atomic Switch by Repeated Electrochemical Cycling; F.-Q. Xie et al.-Realization of an N-Shaped IVC of Nanoscale Metallic Junctions Using the Antiferromagnetic Transition; Yu. G. Naidyuk et al.-PI-Shift Effect and Ferromagnet/Superconductor Nanoscale Devices. Josephson Effect in Composite Junctions with Ferromagnetic Materials; M. Yu. Kupriyano et al.- Depairing Currents in Bilayers of Nb/Pd89Ni11; A. Yu. Rusanov et al.-Superconductor-Ferromagnet Heterostructures; A. I. Buzdin, M. Fauré.-Superconducting/Ferromagnetic Nanostructures: Spin Fluctuations and Spontaneous Supercurrents; M Aprili et al.-Coherence Effects in F/S and N/F Nanostructures. Proximity Effect and Interface Transparency in Nb-based S/N and S/F Layered Structures; C. Attanasio.-Properties of S/N Multilayers with Different Geometrical Symmetry; S. L. Prischepa.-Andreev Reflection in Ballistic Superconductor-Ferromagnet Contacts; L. R. Tagirov, B. P. Vodopyanov.- Superconductor-Insulator Transition in aPbzSn1zTe:In Solid Solution; D. V. Shamshur et al.-Advanced Sensors of Electromagnetic Radiation. Thermoelectricity of Low-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials; V. G. Kantser.- Organic Semiconductors - More Efficient Material for Thermoelectric Infrared Detectors; A. Casian et al.-Submillimeter Radiation-Induced Persistent Photoconductivity in Pb1-x SnxTe(In); A. E. Kozhanov et al.-Quasioptical Terahertz Spectrometer Based on a Josephson Oscillator and a Cold Electron Nanobolometer; M. Tarasov et al.- Novel Materials for Electronics. Origin of the Resistive Transition Broadening for Superconducting Magnesium Diboride; A. S. Sidorenko.-Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Single Bi Nanowires; D. Gitsu et al.- Some Application of Nanocarbon Materials for Novel Devices; A. Mansurov.-Nanomaterials and Domains. Nanocrystalline Iron-Rare Earth Alloys: Exchange Interactions and Magnetic properties; E. Burzo, C. Djega-Mariadassou.-The Influence of Applied Field on the Nucleation and Growth of Heteroepitaxial Carbon Films; B. Z. Mansurov.-