Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

William Barford9780199553785, 0199553785

Writing for experimentalists, physicists, and theoretical and computational chemists, Barford (physics and astronomy, U. of Sheffield) examines the properties of conjugated polymers, explaining how electron-electron interactions and electron-lattice coupling determine the types and character of the low-lying electronic states, starting with the simplest approximations if noninteracting electronics. He covers pi-electron theories of conjugated polymers, noninteracting electrons and interacting electrons (including electron-lattice coupling in both cases), electrons and electronic processes in conjugated polymers, optical processes in conjugated polymers, linear polyenes and trans-polyacetylene, and light- emitting polymers.