A. Thin Film Growth -- Toward an Ab-initio Description of Organic Thin Film Growth -- Organic Nanofibers from PPTPP -- #x03B1;-Sexithiophene Films Grown On Cu(110)-(2x1)O: From Monolayer To Multilayers -- Para-Sexiphenyl Layers Grown On Light Sensitive Polymer Substrates -- Thermal Desorption Of Organic Molecules -- Crystalline Stages Of Rubrene Films Probed By Raman Spectroscopy -- Rubrene Thin Film Characteristics on Mica -- Structural Properties of Rubrene Thin Films Grown on Mica Surfaces -- Rubrene On Mica: From The Early Growth Stage To Late Crystallization -- #x03B2;-Sheeted Amyloid Fibril Based Structures For Hybrid Nanoobjects On Solid Surfaces -- Characteristics Of Vacuum Deposited Sucrose Thin Films -- Electropolymerization of Polypyrrole Films in Aqueous Solution with Side-Coupler Agent with Side-Coupler Agent -- Surface Modification of Polymer Powders by a Far Cold Remote Nitrogen Plasma in Fluidized Bed -- Features of Polytetrafluoroethylene Coating Growth on Activated Surfaces from Gas Phase -- Modification of Amorphous Carbon Film Surfaces by Thermal Grafting of Alkene Molecules -- DNA-controlled assemblage of Ag nanoparticles on solid surfaces -- Characterization of 11-MUA SAM formation on gold surfaces -- SAMs of 11-MUA grown on polycrystalline Au-foils by physical vapor deposition in UHV -- Photoreactive self assembled monolayers for tuning the surface polarity -- B. Traps and Defects -- Spectroscopy of Defects in Epitaxially Grown Para-sexiphenyl Nanostructures -- Magnetoresistance in Poly (3-hexyl thiophene) Based Diodes and Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells -- Evolution of the bipolaron structure in oligo-diacetylene films: a semiempirical study -- C. Energy Level Alignment and Charge Transfer -- Molecular Orientation Dependence of the Ionization Energy of Pentacene in Thin Films -- Charge transfer and polarization screening at organic/metal interfaces: single crystalline versus polycrystalline gold -- Sensing infrared light with an organic/inorganic hetero-junction -- D. Advanced Characterization Methods -- Ultrafast Confocal Microscope for Functional Imaging of Organic Thin Films -- Growth and Desorption Kinetics of Sexiphenyl Needles: an in-situ AFM/PEEM Study -- E. Organic Devices -- Temperature Dependence of the Charge Transport in a C60 based Organic Field Effect Transistor -- The Influence of Chain Orientation in the Electric Behaviour of Polymer Diodes -- Interface Modification of Pentacene OFET Gate Dielectrics -- Negative Differential Resistance in C60 Diodes -- Performance and Transport Properties of Phthalocyanine:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells -- Organic Transistors Based on Molecular and Polymeric Dielectric Materials -- Morphology of the Metal-organic Semiconductor Contacts: the Role of Substrate Surface Treatment -- Molecular Interactions Between Alcohols and Metal Phthalocyanine Thin Films for Optical Gas Sensor Applications -- Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Enhanced Sensing Capabilities -- Photoelectric Properties of Microrelief Organic/Inorganic Semiconductor Heterojunctions.

Organic semiconductors are a central topic of advanced materials research. The book is aiming at bridging the gap between the development and production of devices and basic research on thin film characterisation using cutting-edge techniques in surface and interface science. Topics involve organic molecular-based sensors; interfaces in organic diodes and transistors; mobility in organic field effect transistors and space charge problems; integration of optoelectronic nanostructures; nonlinear optical properties of organic nanostructures; the wetting layer problem; how to get from functionalized molecules to nanoaggregates; optical, electrical and mechanical properties of organic nanofibers as well; as near field investigations of organic thin films.