Electronic Structure Of Organic Semiconductors Polymers And Small Molecules

Written In The Perspective Of An Experimental Chemist, This Book Puts Together Some Fundamentals From Chemistry, Solid State Physics And Quantum Chemistry, To Help With Understanding And Predicting The Electronic And Optical Properties Of Organic Semiconductors, Both Polymers And Small Molecules. The Text Is Intended To Assist Graduate Students And Researchers In The Field Of Organic Electronics To Use Theory To Design More Efficient Materials For Organic Electronic Devices Such As Organic Solar Cells, Light Emitting Diodes And Field Effect Transistors. After Addressing Some Basic Topics In Solid State Physics, A Comprehensive Introduction To Molecular Orbitals And Band Theory Leads To A Description Of Computational Methods Based On Hartree-fock And Density Functional Theory (dft), For Predicting Geometry Conformations, Frontier Levels And Energy Band Structures.