This book contains a selection of lectures from the first CFN Summer School on Functional Nanostructures which took place from September 24th to September 27th, 2003 in Bad Herrenalb in the Black Forest of Germany. The DFG-funded CFN, or Center for Functional Nanostructures, was founded in July 2001 at the Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Additional funding comes from the State of Baden Wurttemberg and from the home institutions, Universitat and Forschungszentrum. The mission of the CFN is to investigate nanoscale functional materials within the following broad research areas:
A Nanophotonics
B Nanoelectronics
C Molecular Nanostructures
D Nanostructured Materials