“…These new developments must also be placed in the context of long efforts and progress which has been directed at employing organic thin films for solar energy conversion , and in sensors of various kinds. Finally, vacuum-deposited OMCs have also been proposed as materials with large second- or third-order optical nonlinearities, ,− ,,,,,− or large χ (3) . There are, in addition, many, somewhat less conventional uses of organic thin films deposited in vacuum, including waveguides and optical couplers, ,,, organic/inorganic photodetectors, , lasers, etc.…”