Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Tomar, Portugal, August 26-September 7, 1979

Inhalt

Physics in One Dimension.- Basic Physical Concepts of Low Dimensional Solids.- Transport in Quasi-One-Dimensional Solids.- Theory of the Electrical Conductivity of Organic Metals.- Neutron Scattering Study of TTF-TCNQ under Hydrostatic Pressure up to 5 Kbar.- Preliminary X-ray Diffuse Scattering Study of TMTSF-DMTCNQ.- Fluctuating Collective Conductivity and Single-Particle Conductivity in 1-D Organic Conductors.- Spin Hamiltonians and Theoretical Models.- Molecular Vibration Studies of Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Charge-Transfer Compounds.- EPR of Organic Conductors.- ESR in Alkali TCNQ-Salts.- Phonon Scattering in Quasi 1-d Conductors: TTF-TCNQ.- Electronic Properties and New Forms of Instabilities in TCNG-Salts with Intermediate Conductivity.- Cohesive Energy and Ionicity.- Molecular Properties of the Molecules Used in Conducting Organic Solids.- Chemistry of Organic Conductors: A Review of Strategies.- The Radical Cation Salts: A View of Organic Metals.- Transition Metal Trichalcogenides.- Survey of Metal Chain Compounds.- Structural Chemistry of Linear Chain Transition Metal Complexes.- Design and Synthesis of Highly Conducting One-Dimensional Materials.- Two Band Conductors with Variable Band Filling: Probing the Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Materials.- Conducting Organic Polymers: Doped Polyacetylene.- Organic Metals and Semiconductors: The Chemistry of Polyacetylene, (CH)x, and its Derivatives.- Applications of Charge Transfer Complexes and Related Compounds.- Organic Conductors as Electron Beam Resist Materials.- Electrical Switching and Memory Phenomena in Semiconducting Organic Charge-Transfer Complexes.