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Frank C. Spano is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Engineering and Materials Science. Within these areas, the scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The scientist's work engages with various topics in organic electronics and materials science. Key research themes include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, as well as Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Materials Horizons
  • Advanced Materials

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Frank C. Spano are:

  • "An Efficient Narrowband Near-Infrared at 1040 nm Organic Photodetector Realized by Intermolecular Charge Transfer Mediated Coupling Based on a Squaraine Dye" (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • "Excitons and Polarons in Organic Materials" (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "Observation of Weak Counterion Size Dependence of Thermoelectric Transport in Ion Exchange Doped Conducting Polymers Across a Wide Range of Conductivities" (2023, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • "A Holstein-Peierls Approach to Excimer Spectra: The Evolution from Vibronically Structured to Unstructured Emission" (2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C)
  • "Unusual Non-Kasha Photophysical Behavior of Aggregates of Push-Pull Donor-Acceptor Chromophores" (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Mohammad Balooch Qarai
  • Raja Ghosh
  • Xin Chang
  • Alberto Salleo
  • Chuwei Zhong

Best Publications

  • The spectral signatures of Frenkel polarons in H- and J-aggregates.

    Frank C Spano

  • Expanded Theory of H- and J-Molecular Aggregates: The Effects of Vibronic Coupling and Intermolecular Charge Transfer.

    Nicholas J. Hestand;Frank C. Spano

  • H- and J-Aggregate Behavior in Polymeric Semiconductors

    Frank C Spano;Carlos Silva

  • Role of Intermolecular Coupling in the Photophysics of Disordered Organic Semiconductors: Aggregate Emission in Regioregular Polythiophene

    Jenny Clark;Carlos Silva;Richard H. Friend;Frank C. Spano

  • Modeling disorder in polymer aggregates: the optical spectroscopy of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films.

    Frank C. Spano

  • Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

    Gregory D. Scholes;Graham R. Fleming;Lin X. Chen;Lin X. Chen;Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  • Molecular Aggregate Photophysics beyond the Kasha Model: Novel Design Principles for Organic Materials

    Nicholas J. Hestand;Frank C. Spano

  • Determining exciton bandwidth and film microstructure in polythiophene films using linear absorption spectroscopy

    Jenny Clark;Jui Fen Chang;Frank C. Spano;Richard H. Friend

  • Cavity-Controlled Chemistry in Molecular Ensembles

    Felipe Herrera;Frank C. Spano

  • Nonlinear susceptibilities of molecular aggregates: Enhancement of χ ( 3 ) by size

    Francis C. Spano;Shaul Mukamel

  • Excitons in conjugated oligomer aggregates, films, and crystals.

    Frank C. Spano

  • Superradiance in molecular aggregates

    Frank C. Spano;Shaul Mukamel

  • Determining exciton coherence from the photoluminescence spectral line shape in poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films.

    Frank C. Spano;Jenny Clark;Carlos Silva;Richard H. Friend

  • J-Aggregate Behavior in Poly-3-hexylthiophene Nanofibers

    Edwards T. Niles;John D. Roehling;Hajime Yamagata;Adam J. Wise

  • Interplay between intrachain and interchain interactions in semiconducting polymer assemblies: the HJ-aggregate model.

    H. Yamagata;F. C. Spano

  • Exciton delocalization and superradiance in tetracene thin films and nanoaggregates.

    Sang-Hyun Lim;Thomas G. Bjorklund;Frank C. Spano;Christopher J. Bardeen

  • Charge-transfer excitations steer the Davydov splitting and mediate singlet exciton fission in pentacene.

    D. Beljonne;D. Beljonne;H. Yamagata;J. L. Brédas;F. C. Spano

  • The nature of singlet excitons in oligoacene molecular crystals.

    H. Yamagata;J. Norton;E. Hontz;Y. Olivier

  • Absorption in regio-regular poly(3-hexyl)thiophene thin films: Fermi resonances, interband coupling and disorder

    Frank C. Spano

  • Vibronic coupling in J-aggregates and beyond: a direct means of determining the exciton coherence length from the photoluminescence spectrum.

    Frank C. Spano;Hajime Yamagata

Frequent Co-Authors

David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons
Warren S. Warren
Warren S. Warren Duke University
Christine K. Luscombe
Christine K. Luscombe Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Carlos Silva
Carlos Silva Georgia Institute of Technology
Alberto Salleo
Alberto Salleo Stanford University
Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University
Shaul Mukamel
Shaul Mukamel University of California, Irvine
Jasper Knoester
Jasper Knoester Leiden University

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