Optical and Electronic Properties of Fullerenes and Fullerene-Based Materials

Reflecting the explosion of research findings in aromatic carbon compounds during the 1990s, this reference covers a host of new and exciting fullerence applications, including nanotubes, compounds of fullerenes with other elements and structures, and polymerized fullerenes. Written by over 25 international experts in the field, Optical and Electronic Properties of Fullerenes and Fullerene-Based Materials illuminates the electronic structures of polymerized C[subscript 60], higher fullerenes, and nanotubes...examines induced absorption and exciton annihilation mechanisms, highly excited states in the singlet and triplet manifolds, and the ultrafast vibrational dynamics of C[subscript 60]...highlights electro-absorption, two-photon absorption, and degenerate four-wave mixing, and ultrafast all-optical switching...investigates excited-state absorption in doped and sol-gel glasses...describes magnetic resonance (MR), photoluminescence (PL), and photoinduced absorption (PA)-detected MR...explores the inter- and intramolecular electron transfer properties associated with singlet-quenching processes...reviews the experimental work on the electronic third-order NLO properties of C[subscript 60] and C[subscript 70] films... studies optical and electronic properties of polymerized and dimerized products of fullerenes...illustrates electronic properties of fullerene/p-conjugated polymer composites and nanotubes...and more. Book jacket.