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Optical Properties of Conducting Polymers

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Abstract

The optical constants of solids reflect their electronic and vibronic structure since the electromagnetic field of the light wave interacts with all fixed and mobile charges, i.e. with free electrons of the solid, with polarons, bound electrons, ions, polar phonons, plasmons etc. In general the response to light is described by the complex dielectric function ε = ε1(ω) + iε2(ω). For a degenerate semiconductor with Drude behaviour at small frequencies, a vibrational mode in the IR and a bandgap in the visible, the dielectric function has a frequency dependence of the form depicted in Fig. 4.1. Conversely, if the dielectric function is known, one can obtain information on the nature of the interactions or quasi-particles themselves and their optical transitions.

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Kiess, H.G., Harbeke, G. (1992). Optical Properties of Conducting Polymers. In: Kiess, H.G. (eds) Conjugated Conducting Polymers. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46729-5_4

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