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Advanced Material Chemistry
FCH-MA_PMCHAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course aims to familiarize students with the advanced features and applications of non-metallic materials. In particular, it is focused on organic semiconductors and other functional materials for use in the fields such as organic light-emitting diodes / lighting elements, organic and hybrid solar cells, organic field effect transistors, solid-state lasers and (bio)sensors. Attention is also paid to the printed and hybrid electronics and photonics.
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Characteristics of non-metallic materials: chemical and electronic structure of metallic materials (electronic structure of atoms, atomic and molecular orbitals, LCAO, bonding and antibonding orbitals, hybridization orbitals HOMO and LUMO levels, conjugated molecules)
Photophysical processes in organic materials - Excited states (absorption and emission, singlet and triplet states), the rate of electron transitions, the transition moment, Frank Condon principle, Radiative and nonradiative transitions, kinetics of excited states.
Exciton processes in organic materials - Solid phase: binding states of matter, amorphous and crystalline phases, excitons, Forester and Dexter energy transfer, quenching of excitons.
Molecular tailoring - the fundamental aspects of "tuning" of the properties of molecular materials.
Quantum chemical modeling of the properties of non-metallic materials.
The electrical conductivity of molecular materials - transport of charge carriers, materials for high charge-carrier mobility transistors.
Photogeneration of charge carriers - the photovoltaic effect, characterization of solar cells, photo-induced charge transfer, organic solar cells - materials and construction.
Photogeneration of charge carriers II - Hybrid Solar Cells: Dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite - structures and materials.
Recombination of charge carriers - luminescence and electroluminescence materials for SS fluorescence and electroluminescence, light emitting diodes construction and lighting systems.
Methods to study the structure and properties of non-metallic materials - optical, electrical and optoelectronic.
Methods of preparation and characterization of thin films.
Conclusions - other selected topics of organic electronics (applications, eg. (Bio) sensors, NLO, laser) and a summary.
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- Programme NPCP_CHCHTE Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme NKCP_CHCHTE Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme NPAP_ENVI Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory