Ellipsometry of Functional Organic Surfaces and Films

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXI

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2. Ellipsometry: A Survey of Concept

   • Christoph Cobet

   Pages 1-26

3. Biomolecules at Surfaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Adsorption of Proteins at Solid Surfaces

      • Hans Arwin

      Pages 29-46

   3. DNA Structures on Silicon and Diamond

      • Simona D. Pop, Karsten Hinrichs, Sylvia Wenmackers, Christoph Cobet, Norbert Esser, Dietrich R. T. Zahn

      Pages 47-59

4. Smart Polymer Surfaces and Films

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Glass Transition of Polymers with Different Architectures in the Confinement of Nanoscopic Films

      • Michael Erber, Martin Tress, Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn

      Pages 63-78

   3. Polymer Brushes, Hydrogels, Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Stimuli-Responsivity and Control of Protein Adsorption

      • Eva Bittrich, Petra Uhlmann, Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn, Karsten Hinrichs, Dennis Aulich, Andreas Furchner

      Pages 79-105

5. Nanostructured Surfaces and Organic/Inorganic Hybrids

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Systems of Nanoparticles with SAMs and Polymers

      • Thomas W. H. Oates

      Pages 109-133

   3. Detection of Organic Attachment onto Highly Ordered Three-Dimensional Nanostructure Thin Films by Generalized Ellipsometry and Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Techniques

      • Keith B. Rodenhausen, Daniel Schmidt, Charles Rice, Tino Hofmann, Eva Schubert, Mathias Schubert

      Pages 135-154

   4. Polarizing Natural Nanostructures

      • Kenneth Järrendahl, Hans Arwin

      Pages 155-169

6. Thin Films of Organic Semiconductors for OPV, OLEDs and OTFT

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Polymer Blends and Composites

      • Stergios Logothetidis

      Pages 173-195

   3. Small Organic Molecules

      • Ovidiu D. Gordan, Dietrich R. T. Zahn

      Pages 197-219

7. Developments in Ellipsometric Real-Time/In-situ Monitoring Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Coupling Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Quartz Crystal Microbalance to Study Organic Films at the Solid-Liquid Interface

      • Ralf P. Richter, Keith B. Rodenhausen, Nico B. Eisele, Mathias Schubert

      Pages 223-248

   3. TIRE and SPR-Enhanced SE for Adsorption Processes

      • Hans Arwin

      Pages 249-264

   4. In-line Quality Control of Organic Thin Film Fabrication on Rigid and Flexible Substrates

      • Agiris Laskarakis, Stergios Logothetidis

      Pages 265-286

   5. Application of In-situ IR-Ellipsometry in Electrochemistry to Study Ultra-Thin Films

      • Jörg Rappich, Karsten Hinrichs, Guoguang Sun, Xin Zhang

      Pages 287-302

Ellipsometry is the method of choice to determine the properties of surfaces and thin films. It provides comprehensive and sensitive characterization in contactless and non-invasive measurements. This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of ellipsometric investigations of organic films and surfaces, from laboratory to synchrotron applications, with a special focus on in-situ use in processing environments and at solid-liquid interfaces. In conjunction with the development of functional organic, meta- and hybrid materials for new optical, electronic, sensing and biotechnological devices and fabrication advances, the ellipsometric analysis of their optical and material properties has progressed rapidly in the recent years.

• Biomolecules at Surfaces
• Characterization of Organic Semiconductors for OPV,
• Ellipsometric Real-time/In-situ Monitoring Techniques
• Functional and Smart Films
• Infrared Brillant Light Sources for Micro-ellipsometric Studies
• Nanostructured Surfaces
• OLEDs and OTFT
• Optical Constants
• Optical Constants of Organic Layers
• Organic and Hybrid Materials
• Smart Polymer Surfaces and Films

• Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences - ISAS - e. V., Berlin, Germany

  Karsten Hinrichs

• Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Analytics, Dresden, Germany

  Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn

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