Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview of nanotechnology and nanoscience / Ahmed S. Khan -- Impact of nanotechnology on telecommunications / Fidel M. Salinas ... [et al.] -- Nanotechnology in fiber-optic telecommunications : power-control applications / Andre Girard and Moshe Oron -- Nanotubes and their applications in telecommunications / Murad Shibli -- Silicon nanostructures for optical communications / Adam A. Filios ... [et al.] -- Nanostructured optoelectronic materials for short-wavelength devices / M. Khizar and M. Yasin Akhtar Raja -- Nanophotonics for emerging optical networks / Kavan Acharya and M. Yasin Akhtar Raja -- Crystalline colloidal array photonic crystal optical switching / Marta K. Maurer -- Processing of MEMS and NEMS / Seyed Allameh -- System-level modeling of nano-electromechanical systems / Kashif Virk -- MEMS-based wireless communications / Salahuddin Qazi -- Quantum-dot cellular automata : the prospective technology for digital telecommunication systems / Shahram Mohammad Nejad and Ehsan Rahimi -- High-electric-field-initiated information processing in nanoelectronic devices / Vijay K. Arora -- Packaging and assembly of microelectronic devices and systems / S. Manian Ramkumar -- An architectural perspective on digital quantum switching / I-Ming Tsai and Sy-Yen Kuo -- Powering the future with nanotechnology / Harry Efstathiadis -- Commercialization of nanotechnology : opportunities and issues / Sohail Anwar.