Organic Nanostructures for Next Generation Devices

1. Introduction

1. Fundamentals of Organic Film Growth and Characterisation
Helmut Sitter, Roland Resel, Georg Koller, Michael G. Ramsey, Andrei Andreev, Christian Teichert

2. Optical Characterization Methods for Ultrathin Nanoaggregates
Horst-Günter Rubahn

2. Growth

3. Growth of Oriented Organic Nanoaggregates via Molecular Beam Deposition
Frank Balzer

4. Tailored Organic Nanoaggregates Generated by Self-Assembly of Designed Functionalised p-Quaterphenylenes on Muscovite Mica Substrates
Katharina Al-Shamery, Manuela Schiek, Rainer Koch, Arne Lützen

5. Hot-Wall Epitaxial Growth of Films of Conjugated Molecules
Helmut Sitter

6. Crystallography of Ultrathin Organic Films and Nanoaggregates
Thomas Haber, Roland Resel

7. Growth and Electronic Structure of Homo- and Hetero-epitaxial Organic Nanostructures
Georg Koller, Michael G. Ramsey

8. Mechanisms Governing the Growth of Organic Oligophenylene “Needles” on Au Substrates
Kathrin Hänel, Christof Wöll

3. Optics

9. Nanooptics Using Organic Nanofibers
Kasper Thilsing-Hansen, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Horst-Günter Rubahn

10. Optical Gain and Random Lasing in Self-Assembled Organic Nanofibers
Francesco Quochi, Fabrizio Cordella, Andrea Mura, Giovanni Bongiovanni

4. Applications

11. Fabrication and Characterization of Self-Organized Nanostructured Organic Thin Films and Devices
Andrei Andreev, Christian Teichert, Birendra Singh, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

12. Device-Oriented Studies on Electrical, Optical and Mechanical Properties of Individual Organic Nanofibers
Jakob Kjelstrup-Hansen, Peter Bøggild, Henrik H. Henrichsen, Jonathan Brewer, Horst-Günter Rubahn

13. Device Treatment of Organic Nanofibers: Embedding, Detaching, and Cutting
Heinz Sturm, Horst-Günter Rubahn

Keywords: Chemistry, Optical and Electronic Materials, Polymer Sciences, Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices, Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy, Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering