Unconventional Photoactive Solids

Section I: Fractals in Disordered Media.- Fractal Image Encoding.- Transport and Reactions in Disordered Media.- Fractal-Like Exciton Kinetics in Porous Glasses, Membranes and Powders.- Reaction Kinetics on Fractal and Euclidean Structures with Energetic Disorder: Random Walk Simulations.- Section II: Spectral Hole-Burning.- Dynamical Hole-Burning Requirements for Frequency Domain Optical Storage.- Zero-Phonon Lines, Photoburning of Spectral Holes, Information Storage, Photon Echo and Solid Systems.- Evolution of Spectral Holes on Logarithmic Time Scales.- Section III: Exciton Transport: Experiment and Theory.- Exciton Transport in Naphthalene-Doped Poly (Methylmeth-acrylate): Spatial and Energetic Disorder.- Excitation Transport Kinetics in Vapor Deposited Naphthalene.- Response of an Insulating Material to Photoexcitation.- Exciton Transport in Mixed Crystals: Quantum Percolation.- Section IV: Electron Transfer in Disordered Media.- On Electron Transfer Reactions in Disordered Media.- Time-Resolved Dielectric Loss as a Probe of Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics.- Section V: Energy Transfer in Organic Solids.- Charge Transfer in Polypyrrole and Electrochromism of Prussian Blue.- Energy Transfer in Doped Polymer Films.- Vibrational Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonded Solids: Phonons and Optical Damage.- Section VI: Silica Glasses.- An Integrated Fractal Analysis of Silica: Electronic Energy Transfer, Small-Angle X-Ray-Scattering and Adsorption.- Structural Changes and Oscillations During the Sol-Gel Transition in Silica Gel Glass as Probed by Pyrene Excimerization.- Organic Molecule, 1,4-Dihydroxy-9, 10-Anthraquinone, Doped Amorphous Silica Prepared by Sol-Gel Method and its Structures Studied by Photochemical Hole Burning.- Isolation and Trapping of Organic Photoactive Molecules in Silica Glass Matrices at Room Temperature.- Section VII: Carrier Dynamics in Amorphous Semiconductors.- Optical Modulation Spectroscopy of Native Defects in Amorphous Semiconducting and Conducting Polymers.- Microstripline Transient Photocurrents: A Probe of Carrier Thermalization and Band-Tail Densities in Amorphous Semiconductors.- Picosecond Decay of Photoinduced Absorption in Hydro-genated Amorphous Silicon.- Picosecond Transient Grating Experiments on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon: A Model for Surface Quenching.- Section VIII: Devices and Applications.- Langmuir-Blodgett Electronic Devices.- High-Resolution Photorefractive Polymers for Integrated Optics.- Solar Energy Conversion by Means of Parametric Mechanisms.- Author Index.