Materials and Measurements in Molecular Electronics

I Presymposium Lecture.- Wide-Gap Semiconducting Materials Superior to Silicon.- II Spectroscopy.- Spectroscopy Methods for Low-Dimensional Systems.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of Photoexcited Retinal Isomers in Solution and the Mechanism of Photoisomerization.- Structure Determination Using Pulsed ESR.- Electronic and Chemical Structure of Conjugated Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: A Review and Some New Results.- Microscopic and Anisotropic Dynamics of Spin Carriers with/without Charge.- Optical and Dynamical Properties of One-Dimensional Excitons in Conjugated Polymers.- III Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- Langmuir-Blodgett Micro-Sandwiches.- Control of Electrical and Optical Properties of Langmuir-Blodgett Films Using Photoisomerization of Azobenzene.- Comparative Study on Langmuir-Blodgett Films and Crystals Based on TTF Derivatives with Long Alkyl Chains.- IV Cluster Materials.- Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Quaternary Zintl Phase Material from the Rb:Ge:In:As System: Rb(Ge1.5In0.5)As2(As1.5Ge0.5).- Electronic Properties of Cluster Crystal Incorporated in Zeolite Crystals.- Conducting Fulleride Polymers.- Development of Superconductors Based on C60.- V Organic Conductors.- Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Molecular Crystals and Langmuir-Blodgett Films.- ?-d Interaction in Phthalocyanine Conductors.- Low-Dimensional Electronic Systems of Molecular Conductors Under High Magnetic Fields.- VI Conjugated Electroluminescent Polymers.- Electronic Processes Associated with Electroluminescence in Conjugated Polymers.- Polymer LED Utilizing Poly(arylene vinylenes).- Electron-Nuclear Double-Resonance Spectroscopy of Polarons in Conjugated Polymers.- Index of Contributors.