This jaw-dropping window on the future is the first comprehensive overview of the fabrication, fundamental properties, and applications of a new class of nanoscaled organic materials. These materials offer incredible scope to scientists wanting to exploit their optical and electronic properties and offer the potential to create a new generation of tiny devices with powerful applications. Altogether, the book offers a unique integration of organic materials science basics, nanostructured organic materials fabrication, and device applications.

InhaltsangabeFundamentals of Organic Film Growth and Characterisation.- Optical Characterization Methods for Ultrathin Nanoaggregates.- Growth.- Growth of Oriented Organic Nanoaggregates via Molecular Beam Deposition.- Tailored Organic Nanoaggregates Generated by Self-Assembly of Designed Functionalised p-Quaterphenylenes on Muscovite Mica Substrates.- Hot-Wall Epitaxial Growth of Films of Conjugated Molecules.- Crystallography of Ultrathin Organic Films and Nanoaggregates.- Growth and Electronic Structure of Homo- and Hetero-epitaxial Organic Nanostructures.- Mechanisms Governing the Growth of Organic Oligophenylene "Needles" on Au Substrates.- Optics.- Nanooptics Using Organic Nanofibers.- Optical Gain and Random Lasing in Self-Assembled Organic Nanofibers.- Applications.- Fabrication and Characterization of Self-Organized Nanostructured Organic Thin Films and Devices.- Device-Oriented Studies on Electrical, Optical, and Mechanical Properties of Individual Organic Nanofibers.- Device Treatment of Organic Nanofibers: Embedding, Detaching, and Cutting.