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Excitons and Energy Transfer in Insulators

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Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 142))

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We concern ourselves, in this paper, with the electronic level structure and excited-state nonradiative relaxation phenomena in molecular solids [1] in the energy range 6–50 eV. Fig. 1 provides an overview of the energy regions for the basic excitations and radiationless decay channels in molecular solids. Phonons, and vibrational and librational excitations, mark the lower energy limit at 0.01 eV. The elementary excitations at higher energies involve intervalence and low-intravalence electronic excitations which can be described in terms of the tight-binding Frenkel scheme [2–4], as well as Wannier exciton [5] and impurity states. At even higher energies, one encounters interband transitions and impurity ionization states.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor HASYLAB, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 2000, Hamburg 52, West Germany

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  3. Institüt für Atom- und Festkörperphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, 1000, Berlin, West Germany

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Jortner, J., Koch, E.E., Schwentner, N. (1985). Excitons and Energy Transfer in Insulators. In: McGlynn, S.P., Findley, G.L., Huebner, R.H. (eds) Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet. NATO ASI Series, vol 142. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5269-0_14

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