Mesotechnology

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Mesotechnology is a term sometimes used in relation to the interface between the everyday macroscopic world, and nanotechnological devices which may be invented in the future. The difficulty stems from engineering a reliable, usable interaction between devices that operate on size scales so many orders of magnitude apart.

It may also refer to manipulating materials at a larger scale than nanotechnology but at a smaller scale than the macroscale. The prefix meso- comes from the Greek word mesos, meaning middle.

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Scanning electron microscope image of a Gallium-Arsenide photonic crystal mesolaser (field emission profile added digitally).

Scanning electron microscope image of a functional microdisk mesolaser.

Scanning electron microscope image of mesosilica particles.

[edit] External Links

• Manchester Centre for Mesoscience & Nanotechnology

• "Mesoscopic Quantum Optics" by Atac Imamoglu and Y. Yamamoto, Wiley 1997. ISBN 0-471-14874-1.

• "Prof. K. Nakayama's Colaborative Research Team of Mesotechnology" (in Japanese)

• S. Cojocaru and A. Ceulemans, "Magnon excitations in a mesoscopic Heisenberg ferromagnet", Phys. Rev. B 66, December 2002.

• K-i. Sugiura, S. Mikami, M. T. Johnson, J. S. Miller, K. Iwasaki, K. Umishita, S. Hino, and Y. Sakata, "Structure and Magnetic Properties of meso-Tetrakis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)porphinatomanganese(III) 2,5-Dimethyl-7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethanide with a 2.3 K Tc. The First Example of cis-Coordination of a Tetracyanoquinodimethanide" J. Mater. Chem. 10, 959-964 (2000).

• K. Hennessy et. al., "Quantum nature of a strongly-coupled single quantum dot-cavity system", ArXiv preprint quant-ph/0610034 (2006).