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Course 2024-2025

Magnetic properties and spin-dependent processes in nanomaterials [SCHIM234]

  • 4 credits
  • 12h
  • 1st quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français
Teacher: Olivier Yoann

Table of contents

1. Introduction

- Angular coupling and spin multiplicity (singulet, doublet, triplet, etc.)

- Hyperfine coupling and spin-orbit coupling

- Magnetic properties of materials (magnetic moment, ferromagnetism, diamagnetism, paramagnetism)

- Electron-phonon coupling, Energetic and positional disorders Excited states (Locally Excited and Charge Transfer states, transition dipole moment, oscillator strength )

- Experimental and theoretical characterizations of optoelectronic and magnetic properties of pi-conjugated materials (EPR, absorption and emission spectroscopy, time resolved spectroscopy)

 

2.  Graphene, nanographenes and graphene nanoribbons
-  Synthesis
-  Electronic (metal or semiconductor) and transport properties
-  Optical properties
-  Chemisorption and physisorption on the surface of graphene
-  Applications
 
3.  Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)
-  History and Rediscovery
-  Spin statistics
-  Applications to Organic Light Emitting Diodes
        o Devices theoretical and effective efficiencies
        o Design strategies and representative materials
-  Field Perspectives
        o Photocatalysis
        o Imaging
        o Detection
 
4.  Multi-excitonic processes
-  Singlet fission of
      o Mechanistic aspects
      o Materials of interest and molecular design
      o Shockley–Queisser Limit
      o Applications to organic solar cells
-  Triplet-Triplet Annihilation
      o Mechanistic aspects
      o Materials of interest and molecular design
      o Applications to organic light emitting diodes
-  Triplet-Polarp, Annihilation
      o Mechanistic aspects
      o Involvement for organic light emitting diodes
 
5.  Magnetic properties
-  Spin crossover complex
-  Transition metal functionalization: Spinterfaces and spin polarization
-  Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity: Functionalization of metals by chiral molecules
-  Spin transport in 2D, molecular and polymeric materials

Evaluations

Oral exam

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR