This text is an introductory compilation of basic concepts, methods and applications in the field of spectroscopy. It discusses new radiation sources such as lasers and synchrotrons and describes the linear response together with the basic principles and the technical background for various scattering experiments.

In dem vorliegenden Lehrbuch wird erstmals eine zusammenfassende Darstellung festkorperspektroskopischer Methoden und ihrer Verwendung zur Analyse der elektronischen und gitterdynamischen Struktur der Festkorper gegeben. Die Methoden erstrecken sich einerseits uber den ganzen Bereich des elektromagnetischen Spektrums, betreffen andererseits aber auch die Spektroskopie mit Teilchen wie Elektronen, Neutronen, Positronen, Mymesonen, usw. Das Buch gibt damit erstmals eine grundlegende, stark diversifizierte und dem heutigen Stand der Untersuchungstechnik entsprechende Darstellung der...

This book deals with electrical, electrochemical, structural, magnetic, optical and lattice dynamical properties of conjugated polymers such as polyaniline, polyacetylene, polydiacetylene, polypyrrole, polyparaphenylene and polythiophene. Several new conjugated systems and model polyenes are also considered. Since the previous winter school on this topic held in 1985, the focus of interest in the field has broadened and now covers not only conductivity and relaxation phenomena of polyacetylene but also nonlinear optical properties, highly oriented and single crystal polymers, and...

This collection of recent results reports transport-property measurements on high-Tc superconductors and investigations by means of microwave conductivity, optical spectroscopy, high-energy spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance. Further contributions consider problems related to structure, doping, the electron-phonon interaction, electron correlation, and mechanisms of high-Tc superconductivity. Reviews providing introductions for nonspecialists to particular areas are followed by research reports detailing our current understanding.

The International Winter School on Electronic Properties of Polymers Orien tation and Dimensionality of Conjugated Systems, held March 9-16, 1991, in Kirchberg, ('lYrol) Austria, was a sequel to three meetings on similar subjects held there. The 1991 winter school was again organized in cooperation with the "Bundesministerium fUr Wissenschaft und Forschung" in Austria, and with the "Bundesministerium fUr Forschung und Technologie" in the Federal Republic of Germany. The basic idea of the meeting was to provide an opportunity for experienced scientists from universities and industry to discuss...

The International Winter School on Electronic Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors, held between March 7-14, 1992, in Kirchberg, (Tyrol) Austria, was the sixth in a series of meetings to be held at this venue. Four of the earlier meetings were dedicated to issues in the field of conducting polymers, while the winter school held in 1990 was devoted to the new discipline of high-T c superconductivity. This year's meeting constituted a forum not only for the large number of scientists engaged in high-Tc research, but also for those involved in the new and exciting field of fullerenes....