Jai Singh & Richard T. Williams 
Excitonic and Photonic Processes in Materials 

This book is expected to present state-of-the-art understanding of a selection of excitonic and photonic processes in useful materials from semiconductors to insulators to metal/insulator nanocomposites, both inorganic and organic. Among the featured applications are components of solar cells, detectors, light-emitting devices, scintillators and materials with novel optical properties. Excitonic properties are particularly important in organic photovoltaics and light emitting devices, as also in questions of the ultimate resolution and efficiency of new-generation scintillators for medical diagnostics, border security and nuclear non proliferation. Novel photonic and optoelectronic applications benefit from new material combinations and structures to be discussed.

Table of Content

Photocarrier recombination dynamics of Perovskite Semiconductor Sr Ti O3.- Excitations at high densities and gradients encountered in scintillation detectors of radiation.- Self-trapping of charge carriers and excitons examined by DFT and hybrid functional methods.- Optical properties of large-area graphene thin films and their applications in solar cells.- Nanostructured architectures in photovoltaics.- Influence of excitonic processes in the energy resolution of scintillators.- Electronic properties of amorphous semiconductors.- Exciton diffusion and dissociation in organic photovoltaic and light emitting devices.- Optical two-dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of exciton dynamics in P3HT thin films.- Optical and electronic processes in semiconductor materials for device applications.- Light harvesting in organic solar cells.- Exciton-surface plasmon interaction in metallic nanocomposites.- Electronic structures of planar and nonplanar polyfluorenes.