This book brings together selected contributions both on the fundamental information on the physics and chemistry of these materials, new physical ideas and decisive experiments. It constitutes both an insightful treatise and a handy reference for specialists and graduate students working in solid state physics and chemistry, material science and related fields.

Well integrated reviews with a coherent tutorial style Well balanced survey of the fundamental ideas and the relevant trends in modern research both on conducting polymers and organic molecular crystals

Inhalt
Part I: Introduction.- Theoretical Studies of Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers.- Recursive Algorithms for Conjugated Polymeric Chains.- Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers.- Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies on the Electronic and Chemical Structures of Conjugated Polymers.- Part II: Introduction.- Electronic States in Organic Molecular Crystals.- Charge Carrier Mobility in Organic Molecular Crystals.- Dielectric and Charge-Transfer Approaches to Excitons.- Excitons in Organic Based Multilayers.- Exitons and Energy Transfer in Doped Luminescent Molecular Organic Materials.