Mechanical stress on the nanoscale : simulation material systems and characterization techniques Elastic strain relaxation : thermodynamics and kinetics Frank Glas Fundamentals of stress and strain at the nanoscale level : toward nanoelasticity Pierre Müller Onset of plasticity in crystalline nanomaterials Laurent Pizzagalli Sandrine Brochard and Julien Godet Relaxations on the nanoscale : an atomistic view by numerical simulations Christine Mottet Accommodation of lattice misfit in semiconductor heterostructure nanowires Volker Schmidt and Joerg V. Wittemann Strained silicon nanodevices Manfred Reiche ... [et al.] Stress driven nanopatterning in metallic systems Vincent Repain Sylvie Rousset and Shobhana Narasimhan Semiconductor templates for the fabrication of nano objects Joël Eymery ... [et al.] Strain analysis in transmission electron microscopy : how far can we go Anne Ponchet ... [et al.] Determination of elastic strains using electron backscatter diffraction in the scanning electron microscope Michael Krause Matthias Petzold and Ralf B. Wehrspohn X ray diffraction analysis of elastic strains at the nanoscale Olivier Thomas ... [et al.] Diffuse x ray scattering at low dimensional structures in the system SiGe Si Michael Hanke Direct measurement of elastic displacement modes by grazing incidence x ray diffraction Geoffroy Prévot Submicrometer scale characterization of solar silicon by Raman spectroscopy Michael Becker George Sarau and Silke Christiansen Strain induced nonlinear optics in silicon Clemens Schriever Christian Bohley and Ralf B. Wehrspohn A comprehensive overview of the current level of stress engineering on the nanoscale combining the theoretical fundamentals with simulation methods model systems and characterization techniques