Description

Developments in optical spectroscopy have
taken new directions in recent decades, with
the focus shifting from understanding small
gas phase molecules towards applications in
materials and biological systems. This is due to
significant interest in these topics, which has
been facilitated by significant technological
developments.
Absorption, luminescence and excited state
energy transfer properties have become of
crucial importance on a large scale in materials
related to light-harvesting in organic and
inorganic third generation solar cells, for solar
water splitting, and in light emitting diodes,
TV screens and many other applications. In
addition, F?rster resonance energy transfer can
be used as a ruler for the characterisation of
the structure and dynamics of DNA, proteins
and other biomolecules via labelling with
fluorescing markers.
This advanced textbook covers a range of these
applications as well as the basics of absorption,
emission and energy transfer of molecular
systems in the condensed phase, in addition
to the corresponding behaviour of metal
nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum
dots. Technical experimental requirements,
aspects to avoid interfering perturbations and
methods of quantitative data analysis make
this book accessible and ideal for students and
researchers in physical chemistry, biophysics
and nanomaterials.