1. Introduction to Luminescence; Fluorescence Probes & detection: Organic dyes, Quantum dots, metallic clusters, perovskites, nanocrystals, nanodots; Steady-State & Time-domain Emission: Absorption Spectrometer, Fluorescence Spectrometer, Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC)
2. Photochemical Processes: Fluorescence, Phosphorescence, Chemi-luminescence, Jablonskii diagram, Internal Conversion, Intersystem Crossing, LASER
3. Solvent & Environmental Effects: Solvatochromism, Ground & excited state dynamics, Isosbestic point, Isoemissive point; Luminescence quenching: Stern-Volmer Equation, Aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ), Aggregation- induced-emission (AIE), Fluorescence Anisotropy
4. Energy Transfer: Overlap Integral, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), Nanosurface energy transfer (NSET), Radiative-Decay Engineering
5. Single Molecule Emission: Methods of Single Molecule detection
6. Metals and semiconductors: Bonds and bands; Electronic structure models, Optical properties of solids.
7. Optical properties of semiconductors, Carrier generation and recombination in semiconductors.
8. Excitons and photoluminescence.
9. Experimental techniques: DRS, PL, AES, XPS, XRF.
10. Solar photovoltaics, Photocatalysis, and other applications of light-matter interactions.
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3. Frank J. Owens & Charles P. Poole Jr., The Physics and Chemistry of Nanosolids, Wiley- 2008.