Intramolecular Charge Transfer (eBook)

Ramprasad Misra did his doctoral studies in the Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) in Kolkata, India. His research interests encompass physical organic chemistry and molecular spectroscopy. He was an integrated PhD fellow of IACS, visiting postgraduate research student at the University of Warwick, UK, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He has authored/co-authored several research articles in peer-reviewed journals and a book for undergraduate students. Presently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). S. P. Bhattacharyya, a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, joined the Department of Physical Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India in 1979 as a lecturer after receiving his PhD degree from the University of Kolkata. He has been professor of physical chemistry at the IACS from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. He was in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay on Raja Ramanna Fellowship awarded by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, between 2012-15. His research interests are in quantum chemistry, soft-computation and chemical dynamics. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Physics. Till date, he has mentored 21 doctoral students and has more than 200 research publications to his credit.

INTRODUCTION
BRIEF HISTORY OF ICT MOLECULES
CLASSES OF ICT MOLECULES
Pi-Conjugated Organic Molecules
CT Metal Complexes
NEW TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING THE ICT PROCESS
THz Spectroscopy
New Theoretical Methods
MEDIUM EFFECT ON ICT PROCESS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS
ICT BASED MOLECULES AS NLO CHROMOPHORES
RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF ICT MOLECULES AND PROSPECT OF DESIGNING NEW MOLECULES
LEDs
Photovoltaics
Field-Effect Transistors
SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK