This volume presents recent results in the physics and chemistry of nanostructures, nanotechnology, and nano-size optical and electron devices. The level of understanding of the nanoworld is apparent from the book.Contents:Optical Spectra of Small Semiconductor Structures: Ab Initio Calculations (F Bechstedt et al.)Porous Silicon/Silicon Structure Investigation by the Method of Photovoltage Temperature Dependence (E F Venger et al.)Nanosized Si:H Material Synthesized by High Dose Hydrogen Implantation (V P Popov et al.)Formation of Collective Energy States in a Dense Ensemble of Semiconductor Nanocrystals (M V Artemyev et al.)The Limitation of Electron Mean Free Path in Spherical Nanosize Particles with a Metal Shell (S M Kachan & A N Ponyavina)Periodic Nanostructures with Enhanced Optical Reflectance (D A Yarotsky et al.)The Features of Paramagnetic Nitrogen Distribution in Synthetic Diamonds (A V Bashun et al.)Molecular Level Observation in AFM Studies of Thin Films (M O Gallyamov et al.)Photoprocesses on the Surface of Nanoporous Semiductors (Yu A Bykovskii et al.)Nanocrystalline Silicon Structures for Electron Emitter Arrays (A A Evtukh et al.)Nanocrystalline Silicon on Si for Light Emitting Device Applications (A G Nassiopoulou et al.)STM Probe Stimulated Creation of Nanosize Memory Devices (A V Yukhnevich et al.)and other papersReadership: Undergraduates, PhD students and researchers in nanotechnology.Key Features:Provides an elementary presentation of the properties of Brownian motionContains the newest results of the subject