Overview

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting displays. They are also active components in many important biological processes. In recent years there have been significant advances in our understanding of these systems, owing to both improved experimental measurements and the development of advanced computational techniques. The aim of this book is to describe and explain the electronic and optical properties of conjugated polymers. It focuses on the character and energetic ordering of the electronic states and relates these properties to experimental observations in real systems. A number of important optical and electronic processes in conjugated polymers are also described.

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Author:   William Barford (Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   129
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.487kg
ISBN:  

9780199553785

ISBN 10:   0199553785
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 November 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction to Conjugated Polymers 2: Pi-Electron Theory of Conjugated Polymers 3: Non-Interacting Electrons 4: Electron-Lattice Coupling I: Non-Interacting Electrons 5: Interacting Electrons 6: Excitons in Conjugated Polymers 7: Electron-Lattice Coupling II: Interacting Electrons 8: Optical Processes in Conjugated Polymers 9: Electronic Processes in Conjugated Polymers 10: Linear Polyenes and Trans-Polyacetylene 11: Light Emitting Polymers A: Dirac Bra-ket Operator Representation of One-Particle Hamiltonians B: Particle-Hole Symmetry and Average Occupation Number C: Single-Particle Eigensolutions of a Periodic Polymer Chain D: Derivation of the Effective-Particle Schroedinger Equation E: Hydrogenic Solutions to the Effective-Particle Exciton Models F: Evaluation of the Electronic Transition Dipole Moments G: Valence-Bond Description of Benzene H: Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method

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William Barford's Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers is a theoretical complement to the high experimental culture of British research on conjugated polymers. Physics today What makes Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers as a whole so enjoyable to read is that it gives a complete overview of the influence of correlation effects on the ground and excited states of those materials. It is a comprehensive treatise aimed at theoretical physicists and chemists working on the field and at graduate students and other researchers who need to analyze their data in terms of theoretical models. The book is long overdue. Physics Today, November 2006

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William Barford, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford

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