Spectroscopy of Defects in Organic Crystals, 1993

Spectroscopy of Defects in Organic Crystals presents a masterly summary of the widespread and voluminous literature on the subject, presenting theoretical and experimental investigations of electron and vibronic optical spectra of organic crystals. Electronic states of defects combine to form crystal near-to-band and band levels. These are discrete states in the vicinity of exciton bands, surface and dislocational excitons, etc. Some studies have expressed dissimilar or even conflicting opinions about the nature of observed phenomena. In the choice of the material, preference has been given to phenomena which have received a theoretical interpretation. Some attention is paid to observations which are not completely understood and also to effects predicted but not yet confirmed.
The monograph will be useful for scientists as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of solid state physics.

1. Theory of Local Excitons. 2. Optical Spectra and Models of Local Excitons. 3. Optical Spectra of Strained Organic Crystals. 4. Dislocations and Optical Properties of Organic Crystals. 5. Surface Excitons. 6. Thermoluminescence Spectroscopy of Defects. References. Subject Index. Author Index.