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Exciton Dynamics

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Excitation Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter

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In Chapter 4 we described the theory of self-trapping of excitions in pure and perfect crystals owing to the exciton-lattice interaction. However, most crystals are neither pure nor perfect. Impurities and structural defects/disorders can settle in during crystal growth and act as trapping centers, thus influencing the energy states and transport properties of excitons. Impurities are also often introduced deliberately in order to change the electronic properties of many nonmetallic solids, and the field of doped semiconductors and insulators has advanced tremendously in the last two decades. It is difficult to cover the subject in any single volume, but in order to study the transport of excitation energy in such solids, it is important to study two particular quantities: (1) the line shape, and (2) the Stokes shift in the luminescence spectra.

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Singh, J. (1994). Exciton Dynamics. In: Excitation Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter. Physics of Solids and Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0996-1_5

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