Some considerations of the size dependence of optical properties of solids and aggregates

We discuss the size dependence of the linear and nonlinear optical properties of small molecular aggregates and of Wannier excitons in small semiconductor crystallites. In the first case, we show that the predictions strongly depend on the approach one uses to describe an excited aggregate. We also show that size dependent radiative decay rates should be observed for these small entities but also for macrocrystals.