“…Advances in chemical synthesis and thin film processing techniques are opening new approaches to prepare functional materials with well-defined composition, uniformity, and conformality. Atomic layer deposition (ALD), − for example, employing a repeated binary sequence of self-limiting monolayer deposition reactions, has been applied to a variety of inorganic metals and metal compounds for advanced electronic and optical applications. − Molecular layer deposition (MLD) expands upon the chemical concepts of ALD to integrate organic monomer and molecular building blocks into oligomeric and polymeric thin film structures with precise control of film thickness. − Recently, a combination of ALD and MLD approaches has been used to deposit several examples of hybrid organic−inorganic thin films, including compounds of aluminum, silicon, titanium, and others. − Some organic−inorganic hybrid materials are referred to as coordination polymers, or metal-organic framework solids, built up of repeating metal−ligand−metal (M−L−M) connectivity, where the L denotes a functional organic ligand, commonly containing C−O units linking to the metal center. Molecular layer deposition can also result in formation of planar or three-dimensional extended inorganic hybrid materials with continuous metal−oxygen−metal (M−O−M) binding units .…”