Abstract
An overview is given for spectroscopic studies of organic polymers using synchrotron radiation, such as (1) absorption and reflection spectroscopy, (2) photoelectron spectroscopy, (3) photochemistry and photodesorption, and (4) fluorescence spectroscopy. Following the classification of electronic excitations in organic polymers and some details of sample preparation, examples of the above items are given for both valence and inner-shell excitations. Importance is stressed for new developments such as (1) site-selectivity of inner-shell excitations, (2) feasibility of probing the intramolecular energy-band dispersion relation in a single polymer chain by angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy, and (3) possible use of soft X-ray fluorescence for a detailed study of the valence electronic structures.
