The search for low‐cost, large‐area, flexible devices has led to a remarkable increase in the
research and development of organic semiconductors, which serve as one of the most …

With the rich experience of developing silicon devices over a period of the last six decades,
it is easy to assess the suitability of a new material for device applications by examining …

The high crystallinity of many inorganic materials allows their band structures to be
determined through angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Similar studies …

Enabled by the improved availability of synchrotron facilities, near-edge X-ray absorption
fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy has become a widely used technique, especially due …

Thin films formed from small molecules are rapidly gaining importance in different
technological fields. To explain their growth, methods developed for zero-dimensional atoms …

A new route to bottom‐up organic nanotechnology is presented. Molecular building blocks
with specific optoelectronic properties are designed and grown via directed self‐assembly …

Hot-wall epitaxy and molecular-beam epitaxy have been employed for growing
quaterthiophene thin films on the (010) cleavage face of potassium hydrogen phthalate, and …

Highly crystalline organic heteroepitaxial layers with controlled molecular orientations and
morphologies are one of the keys for optimum organic device performance. With studies of …

Over the last few years, epitaxially grown self-assembled organic nano-structures became of
increasing interest due to their high potential for implementation within opto-electronic …

The intermolecular and intramolecular dispersions of pentacene are measured by angle
resolved photoemission spectroscopy using a uniaxially aligned crystalline thin film. The …