CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Monolayer Structure and Monolayer Properties -- 1.2 Surface Pressure/Area Isotherm -- 1.3 Maxwell Displacement Current Measurement Technique -- 1.4 Molecular Dynamics of Monolayer Films -- References -- CHAPTER 2 POLARIZATION AND DIELECTRIC CONSTANT FOR 2D MEDIA -- 2.1 Polarization -- 2.2 Spontaneous Polarization -- 2.3 First Order Polarization and Dielectric Constant -- 2.4 Nonlinear Polarization -- 2.5 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 3 MAXWELL DISPLACEMENT CURRENT METHOD -- 3.1 Maxwell Displacement Current -- 3.2 Maxwell Displacement Current by Monolayer Compression -- 3.3 MDC Generated across Organic Monolayers Consisting of Molecules with Dielectric Anisotropy -- 3.4 Phase Transition of Chiral Phospholipid Monolayers by Maxwell Displacement Current Measurement -- 3.5 Maxwell Displacement Current by Photoirradiation -- 3.6 Evaluation of Liquid Crystal Alignment Using MDC Technique -- 3.7 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 4 MONOLAYERS VIEWED AS POLAR LIQUID CRYSTALS -- 4.1 Model and Internal Electric Fields -- 4.2 Polar Orientational Phase Transition in Smectic Monolayers -- 4.3 Change of Orientational Order Parameter at the Critical Point -- 4.4 Dielectric Properties Influenced by the Orientational Phase Transition -- 4.5 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 5 DIELECTRIC RELAXATION PHENOMENA -- 5.1 Rotational Debye Brownian Motion Model -- 5.2 Relaxation Process at an Air-water Interface -- 5.3 Determination of Dielectric Relaxation Time -- 5.4 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 6 CHIRAL PHASE SEPARATION -- 6.1 Elastic Energy and Bragg-Williams Mixing Energy -- 6.2 Chiral Phase Separation -- 6.3 Discrete One-dimensional CPS Solution -- 6.4 Summary -- 6.5 Appendix -- References -- CHAPTER 7 NONLINEAR EFFECTS.

7.1 SOS in Orientational Order Parameters for Coo Monolayers -- 7.2 Chirality Representation -- 7.3 SHG-CD Effect -- 7.4 SHG-MDC Measuring System -- 7.5 Quantum Mechanical Analysis of Photoisomerization -- 7.6 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 8 THERMALLY-STIMULATED CURRENT -- 8.1 Thermally-stimulated Current -- 8.2 Depolarization due to Thermal Stimulation -- 8.3 TSC Experiment -- 8.4 Phase Transition -- 8.5 Thermodynamics Approach to Monolayers -- 8.6 Summary -- References -- CHAPTER 9 ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES AT MIM INTERFACES -- 9.1 Tunneling Current and Electronic Device Applications -- 9.2 Nanometric Interfacial Electrostatic Phenomena in Ultrathin Films -- 9.3 I-V Characteristic -- 9.4 Summary -- References.