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The discovery of the nanoworld and its research is changing our view about materials nature and offer new and unexpected possibilities of manipulation of matter. But the path from science to new technology or product is through the perilous desert of commercialization, which is strewn with unfulfilled hopes. About one of these roads which leads to programmable technologies of formation of surface nanostructures is related in this book.

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Dmitri Karpov is a scientist in the field of vacuum arc technology, author and co-author of many patents and articles. Past years he had activity as a project manager of some international projects in nanotechnology area. This book is devoted to one of these projects realization concerning nanometer structures formation on materials surface.

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