Fundamentals 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.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of fabrication, fundamental properties and applications of a new class of nanoscaled organic materials which holds huge promise for future submicron-sized photonics and optoelectronics. By controlled self-assembled growth on single crystal surfaces, fiber-like structures are fabricated with macroscopic lengths up to millimeter size but mesoscopic widths of mere hundreds of nanometers and nanoscopic heights of several ten nanometers. The extraordinary beauty of these new structures is that they are quasi single crystalline, providing superior optical and electronic properties, and that their properties can be freely tailored via functionalization of their organic building blocks.