Langmuir-Blodgett films

Abstract

The Langmuir-Blodgett technique is a way of making ultrathin organic films with a controlled layer structure, which have many possible applications in technology for signal processing and transformation. Recent research has shown that their characteristics are strongly influenced by the highly anisotropic, essentially two-dimensional organisation of their constituent molecules. Novel effects in charge transport at the molecular scale ( approximately 1 nm) appear to be connected with very strong electron-phonon interactions, but are still not understood.