Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Characterization of polar materials
  • Characterization of NLO-materials for photonic application / S. Grossmann
  • Quantitative measurement of internal molecular electric fields in solids / Peter Geissinger
  • part 2. Organic thin films
  • Self-assembly growth of organic thin films and nanostructures by molecular beam deposition / Chengzhi Cai
  • Unimolecular rectification between 370 K and 105 K and spectroscopic properties of hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide / Robert M. Metzger
  • part 3. Molecular materials in crystals
  • closo boranes as pi structural elements for advanced anisotropic materials / Piotr Kaszynski
  • Iodine and organoiodide templates in supramolecular synthesis / T.W. Hanks
  • Arene-arene double T-contacts: lateral synthons in the engineering of highly anisotropic organic molecular crystals / Michael Lewis
  • Relationship between molecular structure, polarization, and crystal packing in 6-arylfulvenes / Stuart W. Staley.
  • Optical properties of organic wide band-gap semiconductors under high pressure / W. Guha
  • Optical probes of crystal growth mechansisms: intrasectoral zoning / Richard W. Gurney
  • part 4. Liquid and crystals
  • Fabrication of organic microcrystals and their optical properties / H. Oikawa
  • Some applications of organic microcrystals / H. Oikawa
  • part 5. Liquid crystals
  • Molecular design of highly fluorinated liquid crystals / Frédéric Guittard
  • First nematic calamitic liquid crystals with negative birefringence / Volker Reiffenrath
  • Liquid crystalline trioxadecalins: the mesogenic chirality as sensor for molecular conformation and orientation / Volkmar Vill
  • Spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric liquid crystals: role of the molecular architecture and optical purity / D. Guillon
  • Optical switching of a ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator using chiral thioindigo dopants / Robert P. Lemieux.
  • Order-disorder and order-order transitions in smectic C* liquid crystalline diblock copolymers / Mitchell Anthamatten
  • Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers / R. Shashidhar
  • Design of smectic liquid crystal phases using layer interface clinicity / David M. Walba
  • Control of structure formation of 1,3,5-triazines through intermolecular hydrogen bonding and CT-interactions / D. Janietz.