Materials, Physics and Devices for Molecular Electronics and Photonics Proceedings of Symposium M on Materials, Physics and Devices for Molecular Electronics and Photonics of the 1997 ICAM/E-MRS Spring Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 16-20, 1997 - European Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings

Symposium M of the 1997 annual meeting of the European Materials Research Society was held in Strasbourg from 16-19 June. Molecular materials and devices are reaching a maturity level in terms of fabrication technologies, stability-lifetime issues and functional properties, as well as in the basic understanding of their properties that increasingly captures the attention of wider circles of the scientific and industrial communities. Electroluminescent polymers are at the fore-front of this upsurge of interest in view of recent breakthroughs in the fields of displays or light emission. Considerable progress was reported at this meeting in terms of operational lifetime and long term stability, in particular at polymer-metal interfaces under electron or hole injection conditions.;The aim of this Symposium was to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of new work in the field. More that 80 papers reflecting broad and intense activity in the field have been gathered in the proceedings.