Functional Characterization of Nanostructures
The functional characterization is seriously hampered by scaling down to the nanometer range, even more than the geometrical details are. The presentation of the required interfaces to a measurement system is even problematic. Moreover, the measurement signal is often too low or the nanoscopic object is significantly influenced by the interactions of the measurement process. So a physical-functional characterization is often limited to a classification of the functional properties of a...