This volume contains papers on the following: CMOS devices and devices based on compound semiconductors; processing; silicon integrated technology and integrated circuit design; quantum physics; nanotechnology; nanodevices, sensors and microsystems. The latest news and future challenges in these fields are presented in invited papers.Contents:Nanotechnology and Quantum Devices:A New Strategy for In Situ Synthesis of Oligonucleotides Arrays for DNA Chip Technology (F Vinet et al.)Magnetotransport Properties of La-Ca-Mn-O Multilayers (C Christides)Charge Effects and Related Transport Phenomena in Nanosize Silicon/Insulator Structures (J A Berashevich et al.)Thermoelectric Properties of Composite Fermions (M Tsaousidou & G P Triberis)Design and Fabrication of Supported-Metal Catalysts Through Nanotechnology (I Zuburtikudis)Ground State Electronic Structure of Small Si Quantum Dots (C S Garoufalis et al.)Processing:Solid Interface Studies with Applications in Microelectronics (S Kennou et al.)Rapid Thermal Annealing of Arsenic Implanted Silicon for the Formation of Ultra Shallow n+p Junctions (N Georgoulas et al.)Simulation of the Formation and Characterization of Roughness in Photoresists (G P Patsis et al.)Development of a New Low Energy Electron Beam Lithography Simulation Tool (D Velessiotis et al.)CMOS Devices and Devices Based on Compound Semiconductors:Microhardness Characterization of Epitaxially Grown GaN Films. Effect of Light Ion Implantation (P Kavouras et al.)Multiple Quantum Well Solar Cells Under AM1 and Concentrated Sunlight (E Aperathitis et al.)The Influence of Silicon Interstitial Clustering on the Reverse Short Channel Effect (C Tsamis & D Tsoukalas)Noise Modeling of Interdigitated Gate CMOS Devices (E F Tsakas & A N Birbas)High Precision CMOS Euclidean Distance Computing Circuit (G Fikos & S Siskos)Microsystems:Alternative Signal Extraction Technique for Miniature Fluxgates (P D Dimitropoulos & J N Avaritsiotis)Silicon Capacitive Pressure Sensors and Pressure Switches Fabricated Using Silicon Fusion Bonding (S Koliopoulou et al.)Microsystems for Acoustical Signal Detection Applications (D K Fragoulis & J N Avaritsiotis)Capillary Format Bioanalytical Microsystems (K Misiakos et al.)Effectiveness of Local Thermal Isolation by Porous Silicon in a Silicon Thermal Sensor (D Pagonis et al.)Silicon Integrated Technology and Integrated Circuit Design:MOSFET Model Benchmarking Using a Novel CAD Tool (N A Nastos & Y Papananos)Power Amplifier Linearisation Techniques: An Overview (N Naskas & Y Papananos)The Design of a Ripple Carry Adiabatic Adder (V Pavlidis et al.)Maximum Power Estimation in CMOS VLSI Circuits (N E Evmorfopoulos et al.)Power Dissipation Considerations in Low-Voltage CMOS Circuits (A A Hatzopoulos)Microelectronics Networks/Technology Transfer and Exploitation:EURACCESS: A European Platform for Access to CMOS Processing (C L Claeys)MMN: Greek Network on Microelectronics, Microsystems and Nanotechnology (A G Nassiopoulou)Simulations of Molecular Electronics (S T Pantelides et al.)and other papersReadership: Researchers, academics, industrialists and undergraduates in microelectronics, nanoscience, materials science, applied physics and condensed matter physics.Key Features:This book contains chapters contributed by leaders in academia, national laboratories and industrial research all over the worldThis book provides the readers with a glimpse of the scientific legacy and the global influence of an eminent scholar in contemporary applied optics, in particular, nonlinear optics of surfaces, microparticles, and nanostructures