Understanding and control of cluster and thin-film growth on solid surfaces is a subject of
intensive research to develop nanomaterials with new physical properties. In this …

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

Weak epitaxial growth typically utilizes oligomeric or polymeric phenyls or thiophenes as a
templating layer to improve the deposition of metal phthalocyanines (MPc) and other disk …

Origin of nonlinear transport phenomena in conducting polymers has long been a topic of
intense controversies. Most previous knowledge has attributed the macroscopic nonlinear IV …

Scalably grown and transferred graphene is a highly promising material for organic
electronic applications, but controlled interfacing of graphene thereby remains a key …

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 …

Understanding and controlling the growth of organic crystals deposited from the vapor
phase is important for fundamental materials science and necessary for applications in …

The capture numbers entering the rate equations (RE) for submonolayer film growth are
determined from extensive kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations for simple representative …

It is known in thin-film deposition that the density of nucleated clusters N varies with the
deposition rate F as a power law, N∼ F α. The exponent α is a function of the critical nucleus …

We report on the impact of partial fluorination of para-sexiphenyl (6P) on the growth mode
when deposited on the non-polar ZnO (100) surface. The evolution of the thin film structure …