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Robert M. Metzger
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA
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Peter Day
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Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
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George C. Papavassiliou
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National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
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This volume represents the written account of the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Lower-Dimensional Systems and Molecular Electronics" held at Hotel Spetses, Spetses Island, Greece from 12 June to 23 June 1989. The goal of the Institute was to demonstrate the breadth of chemical and physical knowledge that has been acquired in the last 20 years in inorganic and organic crystals, polymers, and thin films, which exhibit phenomena of reduced dimensionality. The interest in these systems started in the late 1960's with lower-dimensional inorganic conductors, in the early 1970's with quasi-one-dimensional crystalline organic conductors. which by 1979 led to the first organic superconductors, and, in 1977, to the fITSt conducting polymers. The study of monolayer films (Langmuir-Blodgett films) had progressed since the 1930's, but reached a great upsurge in . the early 1980's. The pursuit of non-linear optical phenomena became increasingly popular in the early 1980's, as the attention turned from inorganic crystals to organic films and polymers. And in the last few years the term "moleculw' electronics" has gained ever-increasing acceptance, although it is used in several contexts. We now have organic superconductors with critical temperatures in excess of 10 K, conducting polymers that are soluble and processable, and used commercially; we have films of a few monolayers that have high in-plane electrical conductivity, and polymers that show great promise in photonics; we even have a few devices that function almost at the molecular level.
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Table of contents (78 chapters)
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Plenary Lectures: Langmuir-Blodgett Films
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Communications: Langmuir-Blodgett Films
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- Takayoshi Nakamura, Hiroaki Tachibana, Mutsuyoshi Matsumoto, Motoo Tanaka, Yasujiro Kawabata
Pages 519-525
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- K. Lerstrup, J. Larsen, P. Frederiksen, K. Bechgaard
Pages 527-530
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- S. Hagen, H. Schier, S. Roth, M. Hanack
Pages 531-536
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- L. Samuelson, A. K. M. Rahman, S. Clough, S. Tripathy, P. D. Hale, T. Inagaki et al.
Pages 537-547
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- M. W. Poulter, R. Colbrook, G. G. Roberts
Pages 549-555
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- André Désormeaux, Roger M. Leblanc
Pages 557-562
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Plenary Lectures: Non-Linear Optics
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- L. Domash, P. Levin, J. Ahn, J. Kumar, S. Tripathy
Pages 579-589
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- Mathias Lösche, Gero Decher
Pages 591-604
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Communication: Non-Linear Optics
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- S. J. Cooke, G. G. Roberts
Pages 605-610
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Plenary Lecture: Molecular Devices
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- Robert M. Metzger, Charles A. Panetta
Pages 611-625
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Communications: Molecular Devices
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- Daniel R. Talham, Richard M. Crooks, Vince Cammarata, Nicholas Leventis, Martin O. Schloh, Mark S. Wrighton
Pages 627-634
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- J. Paloheimo, E. Punkka, H. Stubb, P. Kuivalainen
Pages 635-641
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- G. J. Ashwell, M. Szablewski, A. P. Kuczynski
Pages 647-652
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Back Matter
Pages 667-742
Editors and Affiliations
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA
Robert M. Metzger
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Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
Peter Day
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National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
George C. Papavassiliou