Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

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Frenkel and charge-transfer excitons in organic solids / Jasper Knoester and Vladimir M. Agranovich -- Wannier-Mott excitons in semiconductors / G.C. La Rocca -- Polaritons / Franco Bassani --Optics and nonlinearities of excitions in organic multilayered nanostructures and superlattices / V.M. Agranovich and A.M. Kamchatnov -- Mixing of Frenkel and charge-transfer excitons and their quantum confinement in thin films / Michael Hoffmann -- Two-dimensional charge-transfer excitons at a donor-acceptor interface / V.M. Agranovich and G.C. La Rocca -- Hybridization of Frenkel and Wannier-Mott excitons in organic-inorganic heterostructures : strong coupling regime / V.M. Agranovich, V.I. Yudson and P. Reineker -- Strong optical coupling in organic semiconductor microcavities / David G. Lidzey -- Electronic energy transfer in a planar microcavity / D.M. Basko -- Energy transfer from a semiconductor nanostructure to an organic material and a new concept for light-emitting devices / D.M. Basko.

The first book devoted to a systematic consideration of electronic excitations and electronic energy transfer in organic crystalline multilayers and organics based nanostructures(quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, microcavities). The ingenious combination of organic with inorganic materials in one and the same hybrid structure is shown to give qualitatively new opto-electronic phenomena, potentially important for applications in nonlinear optics, light emitting devices, photovoltaic cells, lasers and so on. The book will be useful not only for physicists but also for chemists and biologists. To help the nonspecialist reader, three Chapters which contain a tutorial and updated introduction to the physics of electronic excitations in organic and inorganic solids have been included. * hybrid Frenkel-Wannier-Mott excitons * microcavities with crystalline and disordered organics * electronic excitation at donor-acceptor interfaces * cold photoconductivity at donor-acceptor interface * cummulative photovoltage * Feorster transfer energy in microcavity * New concepts for LEDs.