This book assembles both theory and application in this field, to interest experimentalists and theoreticians alike. Part 1 is concerned with the theory and computing of non-linear optical (NLO) properties while Part 2 reviews the latest developments in experimentation. This book will be invaluable to researchers and students in academia and industry, particularlrly to anyone involved in materials science, theoretical and computational chemistry, chemical physics, and molecular physics.

Non-Linear Optical Properties of Matter: From Molecules to Condensed Phases attempts to draw together both theory and application in this field. As such it will be of interest to both experimentalists and theoreticians alike. Divided into two parts, Part 1 is concerned with the theory and computing of non-linear optical (NLO) properties while Part 2 reviews the latest developments in experimentation.

Part 1: Surveys the current advances in the computation of the NLO properties of molecules, crystalline solids and nano-particles. It examines the methods employed to compute the properties of both microscopic and macroscopic forms of matter.

Part 2: Covers the recent advances on the NLO properties of organometallic compounds, rotaxanes, glasses, Langmuir-Blodget films, gold and silver nano-particles etc. Strategies to develop novel NLO materials are also discussed along with the Hyper-Rayleigh scattering technique.

Draws together the widening gap between theory and experimentation Discusses the NLO properties of substances of great importance, organometallics, nano-particles etc. Covers both microscopic and macroscopic matter

Autorentext
Jerzy Leszczynski, Professor of Chemistry and Presidential Distinguished Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Jackson State University.

Inhalt
Microscopic Theory of Nonlinear Optics.- Accurate Nonlinear Optical Properties for Small Molecules.- Determination of Vibrational Contributions to Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties.- SOS Methods in Calculations of Electronic NLO Properties.- KohnSham Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Applications to Linear and Nonlinear Properties.- Non-Linear Pulse Propagation in Many-Photon Active Isotropic Media.- Collective and Cooperative Phenomena in Molecular Functional Materials.- Multiconfigurational Self-Consistent Field-Molecular Mechanics Response Methods.- Solvatochromism and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Donor-acceptor ?-Conjugated Molecules.- Symmetry Based Approach to the Evaluation of Second Order NLO Properties of Carbon Nanotubes.- Atomistic Molecular Modeling of Electric Field Poling of Nonlinear Optical Polymers.- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Chiral Liquids.- Recent Progress in Molecular Design of Ionic Second-order Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Characterization Techniques of Nonlinear Optical Materials.- Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles.- From Dipolar to Octupolar Phthalocyanine Derivatives: The Example of Subphthalocyanines.- NLO Properties of Metal Alkynyl and Related Complexes.- Ruthenium Complexes as Versatile Chromophores with Large, Switchable Hyperpolarizabilities.- Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Selected Rotaxanes and Catenanes.- Second Harmonic Generation from Gold and Silver Nanoparticles in Liquid Suspensions.