TITLE:
The Roots of the Theoretical Models of the Nanotechnoscience in the Electric Circuit Theory
AUTHORS:
Vitaly Gorokhov
KEYWORDS:
History of Science; History of Engineering Science; Nanotechnoscience; Electric Circuits Theory; Electronic Nanocircuit; Circuits Models of Nanosystems; Natural Science;
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.2 No.2,
June
17,
2013
ABSTRACT: In the contemporary nanotechnoscience makes natural-scientific experimentation constitutive for design, while research results are oriented equally on interpreting and predicting the course of natural processes, and on designing devices. Nanoystems can be seen as nanoelectrical switches in a nanocircuit. In nanocircuit structure, we find traditional electronic components at different levels, realized on the basis of nanotechnology. In nanotechnoscience explanatory models of natural phenomena are proposed, and predictions of the course of certain natural events on the basis of mathematics and experimental data are formulated, on the one hand, as in classical natural science; as in the engineering sciences, on the other hand, not only experimental setups, but also structural plans for new nanosystems previously unknown in nature and technology are devised. In nanotechnoscience different models (equivalent circuits with standard electronic components) of electric circuit theory are used for the analysis and synthesis of nanocircuits, and a special nanocircuit theory is elaborated. So nanotechnology is, at the same time, a field of scientific knowledge and a sphere of engineering activity—in other words, NanoTechnoScience, similar to Systems Engineering as the analysis and design of complex micro- and nanosystems.