We and others have been working on single source precursor approaches to thin films of semiconducting and conducting materials.(13) The single source approach means that we have incorporated all the elements that are required in our film into one compound, and we utilize this as a precursor.
Shown below are the Single Crystal X-ray Structures of four Zinc dicarbamates; these pictures illustrate the variety of stuctural diversity observed in this class of compound

(c) Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1997

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