This work examines all aspects of organic conductors, detailing recent theoretical concepts and current laboratory methods of synthesis, measurement, control and analysis. It describes advances in molecular-scale engineering, including switching and memory systems, Schottky and electroluminescent diodes, field-effect transistors, and photovoltaic devices and solar cells.
Series Introduction
Foreword Felix Gutmann
Preface
Contributors
Organic Conductors: An Overview
William A. Little
Basic Physical Concepts of Organic Conductors
Laurent G. Caron
Molecular Design of Organic Conductors
Vladimir Khodorkovsky and James Y. Becker
Chemical Synthesis and Crystal Growth Techniques
Lawrence K. Montgomery
Organic Conductors: The Crystallographic Approach
Alain Filhol
Optical Properties
Andrzej Graja
Magnetic, ESR, and NMR Properties
Luís Alcácer
Organic Semiconductors
André Brau and Jean-Pierre Farges
Organic Metals
J. R. Cooper and B. Korin-Hamzić
Organic Superconductors: From (TMTSF)2PF6 to Fullerenes
Denis Jérome
Introduction to Conjugated and Conducting Polymers
Michel Schott and Maxime Nechtschein
Undoped (Semiconducting) Conjugated Polymers
Michel Schott
Doped Conjugated Polymers: Conducting Polymers
Maxime Nechtschein
Related Topics I: Charge-Transfer Complexes in Biological Systems
Vivian C. Flores, Hendrik Keyzer, Cissy Varkey-Johnson, and Karen Leslie Young
Related Topics II: Thallium-Based High-T, Superconducting Oxides: A Summary
M. Paranthaman and Allen M. Hermann
Applications of Organic Conductors: Molecular Electronics
Mutsuyoshi Matsumoto, Hiroaki Tachibana, and Takayoshi Nakamura
Organic Photoconductors and Photovoltaics
Piergiulio Di Marco and Gabriele Giro
Index
Biography
Farges\,
". . .highly beneficial to all researchers engaged in properties of organic solids. "
---Bulletin of Electrochemistry
". . .It is the merit of this book that it not only provides a broad overview of this rapidly developing field but also. . .presents each special, separate topic as a contribution from well-known researchers active in that area, each of whom has made significant advances in the topic under review. . . .I am sure that this cooperative effort will become, and remain, a standard reference for years to come. "
---Felix Gutmann, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia