Nano-Net [electronic resource] : 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Lucerne, Switzerland, October 18-20, 2009. Proceedings / edited by Alexandre Schmid, Sanjay Goel, Wei Wang, Valeriu Beiu, Sandro Carrara.

Nano-Net 2009 Full Papers and Invited Papers -- The Impact of Persistence Length on the Communication Efficiency of Microtubules and CNTs -- Single and Multiple-Access Channel Capacity in Molecular Nanonetworks -- Timing Information Rates for Active Transport Molecular Communication -- Information Transfer through Calcium Signaling -- Quantitative Analysis of the Feedback of the Robust Signaling Pathway Network of Myosin V Molecular Motors on GluR1 of AMPA in Neurons: A Networking Approach for Controlling Nanobiomachines -- RF Control of Biological Systems: Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks -- Sub-micrometer Network Fabrication for Bacterial Carriers and Electrical Signal Transmission -- Pulse-Density Modulation with an Ensemble of Single-Electron Circuits Employing Neuronal Heterogeneity to Achieve High Temporal Resolution -- Carbon Nanotube Nanorelays with Pass-Transistor for FPGA Routing Devices -- Quantum-Like Computations Using Coupled Nano-scale Oscillators -- Optimization of Nanoelectronic Systems Reliability by Reducing Logic Depth -- Coherent Polarization Transfer through Sub-wavelength Hole Arrays -- Study on Electrical and Optical Properties of the Hybrid Nanocrystalline TiO2 and Conjugated Polymer Thin Films -- Through Silicon Via-Based Grid for Thermal Control in 3D Chips -- Can SG-FET Replace FET in Sleep Mode Circuits? -- Functional Model of Carbon Nanotube Programmable Resistors for Hybrid Nano/CMOS Circuit Design -- Designing Reliable Digital Molecular Electronic Circuits -- Creating Nanotechnicians for the 21st Century Workplace -- Chances and Risks of Nanomaterials for Health and Environment -- Fabrication of Elastomeric Nanofluidic Devices for Manipulation of Long DNA Molecules -- Repeater Insertion for Two-Terminal Nets in Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits -- Workshop on Nano-Bio-Sensing Paradigms and Application Full Papers and Invited Papers -- Nanophotonics for Lab-on-Chip Applications -- Highly Sensitive Arrays of Nano-sized Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes for Industrial and Bio Imaging -- A Cancer Diagnostics Biosensor System Based on Micro- and Nano-technologies -- Nanoelectrochemical Immunosensors for Protein Detection -- Quantum Dots and Wires to Improve Enzymes-Based Electrochemical Bio-sensing -- Ultra Low Energy Binary Decision Diagram Circuits Using Few Electron Transistors -- Organic Memristors and Adaptive Networks -- Nanostencil and InkJet Printing for Bionanotechnology Applications -- Workshop Toward Brain Inspired Interconnects and Circuits - Full Papers and Invited Papers -- A New Method for Evaluating the Dynamics of Human Brain Networks Using Complex-Systems -- On Two-Layer Hierarchical Networks How Does the Brain Do This? -- Reduced Interconnects in Neural Networks Using a Time Multiplexed Architecture Based on Quantum Devices -- On the Reliability of Interconnected CMOS Gates Considering MOSFET Threshold-Voltage Variations -- On Wires Holding a Handful of Electrons -- Improving Nano-circuit Reliability Estimates by Using Neural Methods -- A Bayesian-Based EDA Tool for Nano-circuits Reliability Calculations.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Nano-Networks, Nano-Net 2009, held in Lucerne, Switherland, in October 2009. The 36 invited and regular papers address the whole spectrum of Nano-Networks and spans topis like modeling, simulation, statdards, architectural aspects, novel information and graph theory aspects, device physics and interconnects, nanorobotics as well as nano-biological systems. The volume also contains the workshop on Nano-Bio-Sensing Paradigms as well as the workshop on Brain Inspired Interconnects and Circuits.