Excitons in conjugated oligomer aggregates, films, and crystals

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2006, Pages 217-243

  Spano, Frank C ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Polymers

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AGGREGATES; FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS;

EXCITON-PHONON COUPLING; NANOAGGREGATES; OLIGO-PHENYLENE VINYLENES (OPVN);

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 33646730993     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.57.032905.104557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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