• DIODE network brings together experienced academic research groups and industrial centres with a common aim to integrate inorganic and organic materials in improved practical devices with a particular focus on high-frequency diodes for telecommunication applications.

• DIODE network provides highly trained researchers to secure for Europe a leading position in the exploitation of novel hybrid inorganic/organic devices going well beyond the high-frequency applications.

• Involvement of international manufacturers of inorganic semiconductors, organic molecules and end product devices ensures that new basic understanding is rapidly translated into improved technology.

• Molecular and organic materials are rapidly making a huge impact in the field of semiconductor science and technology.

• Low mobility of organic semiconductors precludes the complete replacement of compound inorganic materials. However, these materials do have a major rôle to play in the control of electronic devices based on conventional inorganic semiconductor technology.

• Inclusion of well-defined molecular layers in inorganic Schottky diodes introduces a new degree of freedom in the control of fundamental device parameters. That simple concept belies the considerable complexity of its technological realisation.

requires a multi- disciplinary approach where a combined experimental and theoretical effort sets out, for the first time to systematically determine the optimum materials and procedures for device performance.