Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: Communities, Innovation, and Knowledge 1 2 Inventing a Community 27 3 Adopting, Adapting, Departing: Early STM at IBM and at Bell Labs 59 4 Variation and Selection: Probe Microscopy Comes to California 87 5 Digital Instruments: Commercialization in a Changing Community 125 6 Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology 163 Appendix A: List of Abbreviations 201 Appendix B: List of Interviews Conducted by the Author 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 233 Index 255 Contents ...