Fabrication of Inorganic-Organic Interfaces

Introduction: Most modern electronic devices are solid state devices, the active components of which are constructed essentially entirely of inorganic materials. To date, and excepting important applications such as photo-resists in lithography, organic materials have played a rather secondary role in this technology. This situation is changing and considerable interest has developed in the past 5-10 years concerning the use of small molecules in active components of electronic circuitry—the field is known as molecular scale electronics or molecular electronics [1]. In all cases involving the use of organics, communication with the macroscopic world requires the transport of electrical charge through metal wires, thus formation of interfaces is critical.