Prediction of excitation energies for conjugated oligomers and polymers from time-dependent density functional theor

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3430-3467

  Tao, Jianmin ^a   Tretiak, Sergei ^a,b   Zhu, Jian Xin ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitation energy; Light emitting conjugated oligomers; Optical absorption; Time dependent density functional theory

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL MARKET; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXCITATION ENERGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 84885836088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3053430     Document Type: Article

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