Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers

1987-1989: Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 1989-1990: Research Fellow at the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago 1990-1999: Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sheffield 1999-2004: Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sheffield 2004-2006: Reader in Physics at the University of Sheffield 2006- : University Lecturer in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Balliol College

1. Introduction to conjugated polymers ; 2. PI-electron theories of conjugated polymers ; 3. Noninteracting electrons ; 4. Electron-nuclear coupling I: Noninteracting electrons ; 5. Interacting electrons ; 6. Excitons in conjugated polymers ; 7. Electron-nuclear coupling II: Interacting electrons ; 8. Linear polyenes and trans-polyacetylene ; 9. Light emitting polymers ; 10. Exciton localization in disordered polymers ; 11. Optical processes in conjugated polymers ; 12. Excitonic processes in conjugated polymers ; 13. Epilogue ; Appendix A: Dirac bra-ket operator representation of one-particle Hamiltonians ; Appendix B: Electron-hole symmetry and average occupation number ; Appendix C: Single-particle eigensolutions of a periodic polymer chain ; Appendix D: The Holstein model ; Appendix E: Derivation of the effective-particle Schrodinger equation ; Appendix F: Hydrogenic solutions of the effective-particle exciton models ; Appendix G: Valence-bond description of benzene ; Appendix H: Derivation of the Frenkel exciton Hamiltonian ; Appendix I: Evaluation of the electronic transition dipole moments ; Appendix J: Spin-orbit coupling in PI-conjugated polymers ; Appendix K: Derivation of the line dipole approximation ; Appendix L: Direct configuration interaction-singles calculations ; Appendix M: Density matrix renormalization group method