The length scales dominating physical phenomena in nanotechnology are at th
e boundary of the macroscopic and microscopic world. Nanoobject formation i
s governed by a competition between deterministic and random forces. Theref
ore, classical physical noise phenomena play an important role in determini
ng structural formations and noise measurements can be used as important to
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