Primary photoexcitations in conjugated polymers : molecular excitation versus semiconductor band model / editor, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic excitation.

Photochemistry.

Polymers--Electric properties.

Polymers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (641 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume concentrates on the controversy within the scientific community over how to explain, understand and describe the photophysics/photochemistry of this class of materials. This controvery is of such a fundamental nature that the solution of the problem might be in a unification of the semiconductor and metal physics with the molecular quantum chemistry. Thus, a wide-ranging and comprehensive discussion of this very crucial issue has not been written down yet. This volume brings together the most prominent scientists specializing in this controversial topic. Each contributor addresses the opponents' arguments. After short introductory chapters, the contributors discuss their own speciality area and compare the results with both models and explain their position on why one of the models is more appropriate. Special emphasis is given to comparative discussions with other conjugated molecular systems as well as inorganic semiconductors.

Contents:

ch. 1. Correlations in conjugated polymers / Z.G. Soos, M.H. Hennessy and D. Mukhopadhyay

ch. 2. Nature of the primary photo-excitations in poly(arylene-vinylenes) : bound neutral excitons or charged polaron pairs / Alan J. Heeger

ch. 3. Excitons in conjugated polymers / Heinz Bassler

ch. 4. Intramolecular excitons and intermolecular polaron pairs as primary photoexcitations in conjugated polymers / Esther Conwell

ch. 5. Excitonic effects in the linear and nonlinear optical properties of conjugated polymers / Shuji Abe

ch. 6. Bound polaron pair formation in poly(phenylenevinylenes) / Lewis Rothberg

ch. 7. Luminescence efficiency and time-dependence : insights into the nature of the emitting species in conjugated polymers / I.D.W. Samuel, G. Rumbles and R.H. Friend

ch. 8. Mechanism of carrier generation in the class of low mobility materials : transient photoconductivity and photoluminescence at high electric fields / Daniel Moses

ch. 9. Photoluminescence spectroscopy as a probe for disorder and excitonic effects in organic and inorganic semiconductors / U. Lemmer and E.O. Gobel

ch. 10. Spectroscopy on conjugated polymer devices / Vladimir Dyakonov

ch. 11. Spin-dependent recombination processes in [pi]-conjugated polymers / P.A. Lane, X. Wei and Z.V. Vardeny

ch. 12. Electroabsorption spectroscopy on [pi]-conjugated polymers / Gerhard Weiser and Arpad Horvath

ch. 13. The role of excitons in charge carrier production in polysilanes / R.G. Kepler and Z.G. Soos

ch. 14. Theory of excitons and biexcitons in [pi]-conjugated polymers / S. Mazumdar and M. Chandross

ch. 15. Ultrafast relaxation in conjugated polymers / Takayoshi Kobayashi

ch. 16. Are bipolarons photogenerated in PPV? / Esther Conwell

ch. 17. Do bipolarons exist in doped or photoirradiated conjugated polymers? - An analysis based on studies of model compounds / Yukio Furukawa

ch. 18. Photoexcitations in conjugted oligomers / Rene A.J. Janssen

ch. 19. Excited states in poly(paraphenylenevinylene) and related oligomers : theoretical investigation of their relation to electrical and optical properties / D. Beljonne ... [et al.]

ch. 20. Ultrafast photoinduced absorption in nondegenerate ground-state conjugated polymers : signatures of excited states / D.W. McBranch and M.B. Sinclair.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781299281011

129928101X

9789814447201

981444720X

OCLC:

847728881