Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors

by Graja, Andrzej

• ISBN13: 9789810204778
• ISBN10: 9810204779
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface to Polish Edition
Preface to English Edition
General Remarks	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Survey of Research in Organic Conducting Materials	p. 3
Basic Properties of Low-Dimensional Organic Materials	p. 4
Analogies and Differences between the Properties of One- and Three-Dimensional Materials	p. 7
Potentialities for the Application of Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors	p. 8
Physical Principles of the Phenomena Occurring in One-Dimensional Systems	p. 10
Properties of One-Dimensional Electron Gas	p. 10
Basic Types of Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems	p. 16
Charge Localization Problems	p. 23
Charge Density Waves and Spin Density Waves	p. 27
Solitons	p. 33
Selected Problems of Phase Transition Theory in One-Dimensional Systems	p. 37
Physical Bases of Superconductivity in Organic Systems	p. 44
Structure and Properties of Conducting Organic Crystals	p. 56
Ion-Radical Salts and Charge Transfer Complexes: Molecular Structure of Donors and Acceptors	p. 56
Molecular Arrangement in Quasi-One-Dimensional Crystals	p. 70
Crystal Structure of Selected Conducting Organic Crystals	p. 77
Charge transfer complexes	p. 77
Simple ion-radical tetracyano-p-quinodimethane salts	p. 77
Complex ion-radical tetracyano-p-quinodimethane salts	p. 79
Electric Properties	p. 85
Mechanisms of Electric Transport; Nonlinear Transport	p. 96
Magnetic Properties	p. 103
Magnetic Ordering and Magnetization	p. 109
Optical Properties	p. 116
Electron-Phonon Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems	p. 124
Phase Transitions	p. 130
Influence of Pressure on Physical Properties of the System and Phase Transition Mechanisms	p. 136
Role of Structural Disorder and Defects	p. 144
Superconductivity in Organic Systems	p. 147
Structure and Properties of Conducting Polymers	p. 158
Introductory Comments	p. 158
Structure of Pure and Doped Polyacetylene	p. 159
Electrical Properties of Doped Polyacetylene	p. 164
Optical Properties of Doped Polyacetylene	p. 170
Magnetic Properties and Spin Dynamics in Doped Polyacetylene	p. 174
Structure and Properties of Polypyrrole	p. 176
Structure and Properties of Other Conducting Polymers	p. 181
General comments on the structure of other polymers	p. 181
Polydiacetylenes	p. 183
Polyphenylene	p. 185
Polyaniline	p. 186
Polythiophene	p. 188
The Structure and Electrical Properties of Heterogeneous Polymer Systems Containing a Microcrystalline Network of Charge Transfer Complexes	p. 189
Methods of Obtaining Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors
Introductory Comments	p. 192
Methods of Obtaining Crystalline Ion-Radical Salts and Charge Transfer Complexes	p. 193
Electrochemical Method of Producing High-Conducting Organic Crystals	p. 196
Methods of Obtaining and Doping Polyacetylene	p. 198
Other Methods of Obtaining Low-Dimensional High-Conducting Polymers	p. 203
Structure, Properties and Applications of Heterogeneous Organic Molecules and Molecular Structures	p. 206
Introductory Comments	p. 206
p-n Junction in Organic Systems	p. 208
Metal-Organic Semiconductor Systems	p. 216
Photovoltaic Effect in Organic Systems	p. 224
Molecular Electrochemical Equipment	p. 239
Other Applications of Organic Conductors	p. 255
Bistable switches and logic elements	p. 255
Picture monitors and optical recorders	p. 261
Electronic and optical elements and other applications	p. 267
Perspectives on Development and Modernisation of Molecular Materials	p. 274
Introductory Comments	p. 274
Some Possible Materials of Molecular Electronics	p. 275
Future Solutions to Selected Electronic Elements	p. 282
Problems to be Solved. Summary	p. 289
References	p. 292
Index	p. 302
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