Electronic structure and optical properties of conducting and semiconducting conjugated oligomers and polymers: An overview of the quantum-mechanical approaches

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 3-10

  Bredas J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ab initio methods; Density functional theory; Models of nonlinear phenomena; Semiempirical models and model calculations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICAL METHOD;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 0030645865     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0379-6779(97)80655-8     Document Type: Article

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