John Wiley & Sons, 2015. – 424 р.The first advanced textbook to provide a useful introduction in a brief, coherent and comprehensive way, with a focus on the fundamentals. After having read this book, students will be prepared to understand any of the many multi-authored books available in this field that discuss a particular aspect in more detail, and should also benefit from any of the textbooks in photochemistry or spectroscopy that concentrate on a particular mechanism.
Based on a successful and well-proven lecture course given by one of the authors for many years, the book is clearly structured into four sections: electronic structure of organic semiconductors, charged and excited states in organic semiconductors, electronic and optical properties of organic semiconductors, and fundamentals of organic semiconductor devices.Contents
Preface;
Chapter I. The Electronic Structure of Organic Semiconductors:
Introduction;
Different organic semiconductor materials;
Electronic states of a molecule;
Transitions between molecular states;
Spectroscopic methods;
Further reading;
Chapter II. Charges and Excited States in Organic Semiconductors:
Excited molecules from the gas phase to the amorphous film;
Excited molecules in crystalline phases – the frenkel exciton;
Excited states in π-conjugated polymers;
Charged molecules;
A comparison between inorganic and organic semiconductors;
Further reading;
Chapter III. Electronic and Optical Processes of Organic Semiconductors:
Basic aspects of electrical current in a device;
Charge injection mechanisms;
Charge carrier transport;
Non-geminate charge carrier recombination;
Generation of excitations;
Dissociation of excitations;
Diffusion of excitations;
Decay of excitations;
Further reading;
Chapter IV. Fundamentals of Organic Semiconductor Devices:
Basic solar cells and light-emitting diode structures;
Solar cell performance;
Light-emitting diode performance;
Transistors;
Further reading;
Appendices;
Index.
