Self-Assembly Growth of Organic Thin Films and Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Deposition. An Interesting and Unexpected Story (2000)
Abstract:
Introduction Organic thin films and nanostructures have attracted increasing interest for their potential applications in a variety of advanced technologies, including nonlinear optics (NLO), microelectronics, nanotechnology, light emitting devices, field-effect transistors, liquid crystals, sensors, and solar cells (1-7). For many of these applications, the device performance is crucially dependent on the orientation of the functional molecules in the film or the nanostructure (1-3). Therefore, methods for 3) Current addresses. CC: Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5641. BM: Biocompatible Materials Science and Engineering, ETH Ziirich. YT: Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council Canada, M-50 Montreal Road, Rm 178, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6. alignment of molecules in the structures are of great technological interest. The alignment can be centrosymmetric or non-centrosymmetric. Non-centrosymmetric alignment is more ch
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