Phenomena related with the diamond surface of both power electronic and biosensor
devices govern their global behaviour. In particular H-or O-terminations lead to wide …

Diamond materials span a wide range of attractive physical properties, including large
mechanical resistance, high thermal conductivity, and tunable optoelectronic behavior when …

Ultrathin layers of organic molecules can be assembled on group IV (eg, silicon, germanium,
diamond) semiconductor surfaces using surface analogues of cycloaddition reactions. We …

In this dissertation, three aspects about surface and interface engineering of conjugated
polymers and nanomaterials will be discussed.(i) There is a significant promise for …

Surfaces are sometimes referred as the largest defects in real materials. The transition from
bulk material to vacuum, gas, liquid overlayers or other adsorbates inevitably introduces …

To utilize diamond as the superior platform for molecular devices, special surface
modifications and chemistry are required to impart functional groups on the otherwise inert …

In this thesis, various surface characterization techniques were applied to study the
adsorption of organic molecules and precursors on surfaces. In the first part, we report the …