Transmission and Absorption

In the previous section, the relationships between transmittance and absorbance were described, with few details given. In this section, some of the specifics are elucidated. Scattering is dealt with separately in Sec. 16.4. 

The complexity of the situation is depicted in Fig. 16.7, where the reflectance of KBr at 10 K is plotted as a function of incident photon energy over a wide range from the IR to the UV. The salient features are an IR absorption edge at 0.03 eV, an absorption peak at about 2 eV, and a number of absorption peaks in the UV part of the spectrum around 7 eV. 

From the previous discussion it is clear that the requirements for a material to be transparent are the absence of strong absorption and/or scattering in the visible range. The range over which a solid is transparent 

As noted earlier, near resonance, crystals become considerably more reflective. 

It is worth noting here that the information embedded in this graph, between the IR absorption edge and the UV spectrum, is the same information that appears in Fig. 14.13/) over the same range. 

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One more application area is composite materials where one wants to investigate the 3D structure and/or reaction to external influences. Fig.3a shows a shadow image of a block of composite material. It consists of an epoxy matrix with glass fibers. The reconstructed cross-sections, shown in Fig.3b, clearly show the fiber displacement inside the matrix. The sample can be loaded in situ to investigate the reaction of matrix and fibers to external strain. Also absorption and transmission by liquids can be visualized directly in three-dimensions. This method has been applied to the study of oil absorption in plastic granules and water collection inside artificial plant grounds. 

Figure 6.83 Reflection, absorption and transmission by a sohd. From K. M. Rahs, T. H. Conrtney, and J. Wulff, Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Copyright 1976 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. This material is nsed by permission John Wiley Sons, Inc.

Early work using microwaves as a diagnostic tool relied upon measuring a secondary effect of the dielectric properties of the material under interrogation, i.e., reflection, absorption and transmission. The two fundamental microwave parameters, e and e" are related to the food or material composition. These two fundamental parameters also determine the reflection, absorption and transmission of the materials exposed to a microwave signal. Thus by measuring the amplitude and phase of the reflected or transmitted wave, or the characteristics of absorption of a wave through the material, one is able to empirically establish a relationship to the constituency of the product. 

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The reflectivity, absorptivity and transmissivity of a translucent body depend in large part on the surface conditions, the wavelength of the radiation, the composition of the material and the thickness of the body. Since the attenuation of radiation within a body should be analyzed as a bulk process, the evaluation of the reflectivity and transmissivity of a translucent object is more involved. 

Gas Emissivities Radiant transfer in a gaseous medium is characterized by three quantities the gas emissivity, gas absorptivity, and gas transmissivity. Gas emissivity refers to radiation originating within a gas volume which is incident on some reference surface. Gas absorptivity and transmissivity, however, refer to the absorption and transmission of radiation from some external surface radiation source characterized by some radiation temperature 7. The sum of the gas absorptivity and transmissivity must, by definition, be unity. Gas absorptivity may be calculated from an appropriate gas emissivity. The gas emissivity is a function only of the gas temperature Tg while the absorptivity and transmissivity are functions ofboth Tg and Tt. 

The clear plus gray WSGG spectral model also readily leads to values for gas absorptivity and transmissivity, with respect to some appropriate surface radiation source at temperature 7, for example,... 

An application in photomedical research is the measurement of absorption and transmission of thick specimens e.g. human skin. A spectral narrowband irradiation of skin lesions and tumors can use the high spectral intensity together with the tunability of special lasers. Action spectra of phototherapeutic interest such as of photosensitizers like psoralens can be investigated. Furthermore, tunable lasers perform a selective excitation of practically any quantum state of atoms or molecules in the wavelength range from about 200 nm to 20 p. 

FIGURE 4.1 Incident radiation is divided into reflection, absorption, and transmission. 

Absorption and transmission Incident light, /q Atomic absorption... 

The radiation absorption and transmission characteristics of polymers can be used to identify polymer types. The basic principle of spectrophotometric methods of analysis is to provide an energy source (such as infrared radiation, IR) to which a sample is exposed, and to convert to some measure a response that is characteristic of the moiecuies. This response is, most often, absorption of a fraction of the incident tight. 

In the first models of incorporation of cyclic peptide stacks in membranes, a perpendicular orientation of the central axis of the nanotubes relative to the bilayer plane was assumed. Subsequent investigations of cyclo[(L-Trp-D-Leu)3-L-Gln-D-Leu-] in functionally relevant lipid membranes by polarized attenuated total reflectance (ATR), grazing angle reflection-absorption and transmission Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) techniques showed that this is not quite so. In fact, their central... 

Electromagnetic waves Electromagnetic wave reflection, absorption and transmission coefficients Dielectric properties (permittivity, loss factor), moisture absorption, delamination, geometry, flaw size... 

M5 The spectral variations of absorption and transmission relative to heat radiation are taken into account by average values weighted with the solar spectrum and with the distribution of the low-temperature Planck radiator. 

Properties like absorptivity and transmissivity of moist materials are not frequently encountered in the literature. In addition to the dependency with wavelength and thickness, they also depend on the water content. One of the most extensive reports on experimental data of these properties can be found in Ginzburg (1969). Mohsenin (1984) also presents a good compilation of data on radiation properties of agricultural and food products. 

The relative values of absorption and transmission of adjacent elemental ray paths in an x-ray beam provide the contrast in a projected image. The associated interaction of the x-rays with the material body can be defined in terms of collision cross sections that describe the probability of particular events occurring along the ray path. Here, the principal effects, for x-ray energies below 1 MeV, are identified in Sec. 26.2 as the photoelectron event and the Compton scattering event. These effects are combined to define a linear attenuation coefficient pj(x) that describes the variation of photon intensity along the ray path x according to the exponential relation = o... 

Unfortunately, the requirements of recoil-free emission and resonant absorption and transmission through the absorber limit the useable energy range of the Mossbauer effect 7-ray to approximately 10-100 keV. Further, in order to obtain rather sharp absorption lines and a reasonable spectral resolution, the mean lifetime of the Mossbauer 7-ray precursor state should be between 1 ns and 100 ns. Further, the Mossbauer nuclide must have a sufficiently high isotopic abundance in the element to yield a usable signal-to-noise ratio over a reasonable acquisition time. Finally, the radioactive source containing the Mossbauer 7-ray precursor state must be easily prepared and have a mean lifetime of several weeks to be practical. These various requirements limit the number of nuclides available for typical Mossbauer spectral studies. 

These, abovementioned, noise barriers exhibit a much better performance than concrete with soimd absorption and transmission loss. But noise reduction is not the only criterion dominating the decision to construct noise barriers. There are other crucial criteria, and they include (1) cost-effectiveness, (2) technology maturity, (3) durability, (4) low cost and convenience in installation, (5) low cost and convenience in maintenance and repair, and (6) aesthetics. Concrete noise barriers meet those criteria very much (Kay et al. 2000). Crumb rubber blends aiming at the application in noise reduction are also developed and are found to yield encouraging results (Han et al. 2008). 

Absorption and Transmission of IPS d.SIGN Products Thickness of the Samples 1.0 mm ... 

For additional references on absorption and transmission spectroscopy, see Braun (1987) or Clark (1960). 

In this chapter, the main optical techniques used to characterize PLA-based polymers are discussed in four sections (1) absorption and transmission of UV-Vis radiation, (2) index of refraction, (3) specific optical rotation, and (4) infrared and Raman spectroscopy and NMR. 

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