Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

Conjugated polymers have important technological applications, including solar cells and light emitting devices. 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 three key roles of electron-electron interactions, electron-nuclear coupling, and disorder in determining the character of the electronic states, and it relates these properties to experimental observations in real systems.

A number of important optical and electronic processes in conjugated polymers are also described. The second edition has a more extended discussion of excitons in conjugated polymers. There is also a new chapter on the static and dynamical localization of excitons.

1987-1989: Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
1989-1990: Research Fellow at the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
1990-1999: Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sheffield
1999-2004: Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sheffield
2004-2006: Reader in Physics at the University of Sheffield
2006- : University Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Balliol College