Optical Processes In Solids

Author : Yutaka Toyozawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521554473
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Processes in Solids written by Yutaka Toyozawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unifying element that links the apparently diverse phenomena observed in optical processes is the dielectric dispersion of matter. It describes the response of matter to incoming electromagnetic waves and charged particles, and thus predicts their behavior in the self-induced field of matter, known as polariton and polaron effects. The energies of phonon, exciton and plasmon, quanta of collective motions of charged particles constituting the matter, are also governed by dielectric dispersion. Since the latter is a functional of the former, one can derive useful relations for their self-consistency. Nonlinear response to laser light inclusive of multiphoton processes, and excitation of atomic inner shells by synchrotron radiation, are also described. Within the configuration coordinate model, photo-induced lattice relaxation and chemical reaction are described equally to both ground and relaxed excited states, to provide a novel and global perspective on structural phase transitions and the nature of interatomic bonds. This book was first published in 2003.

Author : Frederick Wooten
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483220761
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Properties of Solids written by Frederick Wooten and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical Properties of Solids covers the important concepts of intrinsic optical properties and photoelectric emission. The book starts by providing an introduction to the fundamental optical spectra of solids. The text then discusses Maxwell's equations and the dielectric function; absorption and dispersion; and the theory of free-electron metals. The quantum mechanical theory of direct and indirect transitions between bands; the applications of dispersion relations; and the derivation of an expression for the dielectric function in the self-consistent field approximation are also encompassed. The book further tackles current-current correlations; the fluctuation-dissipation theorem; and the effect of surface plasmons on optical properties and photoemission. People involved in the study of the optical properties of solids will find the book invaluable.

Author : Baldassare di Bartolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146153044X
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Properties of Excited States in Solids written by Baldassare di Bartolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of the course "Optical Properties of Excited States in Solids" held in Erice, Italy, from June 16 to 3D, 1991. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The purpose of this course was to present physical models, mathematical formalisms and experimental techniques relevant to the optical properties of excited states in solids. Some active physical species, such as ions or radicals, could survive indefinitely if they were completely 'isolated in space. Other active species, such as excited molecular and solid-state systems, are inherently unstable, even in isolation, due to the spontaneous mechanisms that may convert their excitation energies into radiation or heat. Physical parameters that may be used to characterize these excited systems are the localization or delocalization, and the coherence or incoherence, of their state excitations. In solids the excited states, whether they are localized (as for impurities in insulators) or delocalized (as they may occur in semiconductors), are relevant in several regards. Their de-excitation is extremely sensitive to the nature of the excitations of the systems, and a study of the de-excitation processes can yield a variety of information. For example, the excited states may represent the initial condition of the onset of such processes as Stokes-shifted emission, hot luminescence, symmetry-dependent Jahn-Teller and scattering processes, tunneling processes, energy transfer to like and unlike centers, superradiance, coherent radiation, and excited state absorption.

Author : Di Bartolo Baldassare
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9813107839
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Interactions In Solids (2nd Edition) written by Di Bartolo Baldassare and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical Interactions in Solids presents an extensive and unified treatment of the basic principles of the optical properties of solids. It provides a theoretical background to workers in the field of laser physics and absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy of solid state materials. The book is a comprehensive coverage of the subject and is systematically and didactically organized. The level of presentation is such that it will benefit and interest both advanced students and research workers. Group theory — which is useful throughout — is introduced early in the book advocating the scientific community to overcome the reluctance to employ this powerful method. Consistent emphasis is given throughout the book to the relevance of symmetry and to detailed calculations. Different subjects as various as quantum theory of radiation field, thermal vibrations of molecules and crystals and covalent bonding are brought together in a unified treatment which requires knowledge of all these topics and this points to the interpretation of the spectral properties of solids. The content of this work could be used as a two term graduate course in solid state spectroscopy.br>

Author : Masayasu Ueta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642826024
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Excitonic Processes in Solids written by Masayasu Ueta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciton is an electronic excitation wave consisting of an electron-hole pair which propagates in a nonmetallic solid. Since the pioneering research of Fren kel, Wannier and the Pohl group in the 1930s, a large number of experimental and theoretical studies have been made. Due to these investigations the exciton is now a well-established concept and the electronic structure has been clarified in great detail. The next subjects for investigation are, naturally, dynamical processes of excitons such as excitation, relaxation, annihilation and molecule formation and, in fact, many interesting phenomena have been disclosed by recent works. These excitonic processes have been recognized to be quite important in solid-state physics because they involve a number of basic interactions between excitons and other elementary excitations. It is the aim of this quasi monograph to describe these excitonic processes from both theoretical and experimental points of view. we take a few To discuss and illustrate the excitonic processes in solids, important and well-investigated insulating crystals as playgrounds for excitons on which they play in a manner characteristic of each material. The selection of the materials is made in such a way that they possess some unique properties of excitonic processes and are adequate to cover important interactions in which excitons are involved. In each material, excitonic processes are described in detail from the experimental side in order to show the whole story of excitons in a particular material.

Author : Baldassare Di Bartolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461530459
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optical Properties of Excited States in Solids written by Baldassare Di Bartolo and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-31 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814295760
Total Pages : 631 pages
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Download or read book Optical Interactions in Solids (2nd Edition) written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anatoliĭ Stepanovich Chirkin
Publisher : SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonlinear Optical Processes in Solids written by Anatoliĭ Stepanovich Chirkin and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Bendow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468421786
Total Pages : 525 pages
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Download or read book Optical Properties of Highly Transparent Solids written by Bernard Bendow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much work has been performed on measure ments and interpretation of light absorption by opaque or nearly opaque solids, it is surprising to note that until recently relatively little reliable experimental data, and much less theoretical work was available on the nature of transparent solids. This, in spite of the fact that a vast majority of engineering and device ap plications of a solid depend on its optical transparency. Needless to say, all solids are both transparent and opa que depending on the spectral region of consideration. The absorption processes that limit the transparency of a solid are either due to lattice vibrations, as in ionic or partially ionic solids, or due to electronic transi tions, both intrinsic and impurity-induced. For most materials, a sufficiently wide spectral window exists be tween these two limits, where the material is transpar ent. In general, the absorption coefficient, in the long wavelength side of, but sufficiently away from, the fun damental absorption edge, is relatively structureless and has an exponential dependence on frequency. Recent evi dence suggests that in the short wavelength side of the one-phonon region, but beyond two- or three-phonon sin gularities, the absorption coefficient of both polar and nonpolar solids is also relatively structureless and de pends exponentially on frequency.

Author : Baldassare di Bartolo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475744463
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Nonradiative Processes in Solids written by Baldassare di Bartolo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of the course "Advances in Nonradiative Processes in Solids" held in Erice, Italy, from June 15 to 29, 1989. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. An area of solid state research that continues to attract the attention of experimental and theoretical physicists is that of nonradiative relaxation processes of excited solids. The interest in these processes stems from their technological relevance, and from the difficulty in the quantitative characterization and differentiation of their various pathways. The decay channels leading to the ground state include the conversion of electronic excitation energy into phonon energy, nonradiative transfer of excitation energy, upconversion processes, etc. Considerable advances have been achieved in understanding and modeling the radiative process that follow the electronic excitations of solids; the progress in this field has been instrumental in the development of new solid-state devices and laser materials. On the other hand, these advances have underscored the inadequacy in the understanding of the nonradiative relaxation processes. This course dealt with the advances in physical modeling, mathematical formalisms and experimental techniques relevant to the quantitative characterization of the various pathways of nonradiative relaxation of solids in excited electronic states.