Instrumental Community : Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology /
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2011.
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Communities, Innovation, and Knowledge
- 2. Inventing a Community
- 3. Adopting, Adapting, Departing: Early STM at IBM and at Bell Labs
- 4. Variation and Selection: Probe Microscopy Comes to California
- 5. Digital Instruments: Commercialization in a Changing Community
- 6. Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology.