This book presents both fundamental knowledge and latest achievements of this rapidly growing field in the last decade. It presents a complete and concise picture of the the state-of-the-art in the field, encompassing the most active international research groups in the world. Led by contributions from leading global research groups, the book discusses the functionalization of semiconductor surface. Dry organic reactions in vacuum and wet organic chemistry in solution are two major categories of strategies for functionalization that will be described. The growth of multilayer-molecular architectures on the formed organic monolayers will be documented. The immobilization of biomolecules such as DNA on organic layers chemically attached to semiconductor surfaces will be introduced. The patterning of complex structures of organic layers and metallic nanoclusters toward sensing techniques will be presented as well.

Chapter 1. IntroductionFranklin (Feng) Tao, Yuan Zhu, and Steven L. BernasekChapter 2. Surface Analytical TechniquesYing Wei Cai and Steven L. BernasekChapter 3. Structures of Semiconductor Surfaces and Origins of Surface Reactivity with Organic MoleculesYongquan Qu and Keli HanChapter 4. Pericyclic Reactions of Organic Molecules at Semiconductor SurfacesKeith T. Wong and Stacey F. BentChapter 5. Chemical Binding of Five-membered and Six-membered Aromatic MoleculesFranklin F. Tao and Steven L. BernasekChapter 6. Influence of Functional Groups in Substituted Aromatic Molecules on the Selection of Reaction Channel in Semiconductor Surface FunctionalizationAndrew V. TeplyakovChapter 7. Covalent Binding of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon SystemsDr. Yong Kian Soon and Professor Xu Guo-QinChapter 8.Young Hwan Min, Hangil Lee, Do Hwan Kim, and Sehun KimChapter 9. Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of conjugated dienes on semiconductor surfacesMark E. Tuckerman and Yanli ZhangChapter 10. Formation of Organic Nanostructures on Semiconductor SurfacesZakir Hossian and Maki KawaiChapter 11. Formation of Organic Monolayers through Wet ChemistryDamien Aureau and Yves J. ChabalChapter 12. Chemical Stability of Organic Monolayers Formed in SolutionLeslie E. O'Leary, Erik Johansson, and Nathan S. LewisChapter 13. Immobilization of Biomolecules at Semiconductor InterfacesRobert J. HamersChapter 14. Perspective and ChallengeFranklin (Feng) Tao and Steven L. Bernasek