Electron-impact luminescence

A number of systematic structural analyses have been described for families of saturated oxazolones. First, as mentioned previously, detailed smdies of NMR long-range coupling in 2,4-disubstimted-5(47/)-oxazolones and in 5(27/)-oxazo-lones have been reported." Similarly, detailed NMR studies of the kinetics of racemization of 2,4-disubstimted-5(47/)-oxazolones have been performed. A theoretical study of the spectral-luminescence properties of some 4-alkyl-2-phenyl-5(47/)-oxazolones has been reported and an investigation of the infrared (IR) and Raman spectra of 5(4//)-oxazolones, particularly of the carbonyl group vibration, has been reported. Electron impact mass spectra of saturated 5(47/)-oxazolones have been published. More recently this technique has been used to distinguish between the stereoisomers of some spirocyclopropane oxazolones 352 (Fig. 7.36). Finally, several studies of the HPLC behavior of 5(47/)-oxazolones complete a general view for this family of compounds. " " ... 

Absolute cross sections should be measured for electron impact dissociative excitation of molecules, leading in particular to non-luminescent fragments. 

Comparison of this luminescence intensity in different samples reveals that any correlation is absent any impurity concentration. Thus it was supposed that the mostly probable luminescence center is Ti, which presence is quite natural in Ti bearing benitoite. The wide occurrence of Ti " minor impurities in minerals was detected by EPR. Like the other d ions (V, Mo ), Ti ions occur often in minerals as electron center (Marfunin 1979). It may be realized in benitoite, which does have some natural exposure to gamma rays in its natural setting. There could be radiation centers, such as, for example, Ti + gamma ray + electron donor Ti + electron hole. Benitoite color does not change with gamma irradiation to quite high doses (Rossman 1997) but luminescence is much more sensitive compared to optical absorption and can occur from centers at such low concentration that they do not impact the color of a benitoite. 

Excited states can be formed by a variety of processes, of which the important ones are photolysis (light absorption), impact of electrons or heavy particles (radiolysis), and, especially in the condensed phase, ion neutralization. To these may be added processes such as energy transfer, dissociation from super-excited and ionized states, thermal processes, and chemical reaction. Following Brocklehurst [14], it is instructive to consider some of the direct processes giving excited states and their respective inverses. Thus luminescence is the inverse of light absorption, super-elastic collision is the inverse of charged particle impact excitation, and collisional deactivation is the inverse of the thermal process, etc. 

The first optical laser, the ruby laser, was built in 1960 by Theodore Maiman. Since that time lasers have had a profound impact on many areas of science and indeed on our everyday lives. The monochromaticity, coherence, high-intensity, and widely variable pulse-duration properties of lasers have led to dramatic improvements in optical measurements of all kinds and have proven especially valuable in spectroscopic studies in chemistry and physics. Because of their robustness and high power outputs, solid-state lasers are the workhorse devices in most of these applications, either as primary sources or, via nonlinear crystals or dye media, as frequency-shifted sources. In this experiment the 1064-mn near-infrared output from a solid-state Nd YAG laser will be frequency doubled to 532 nm to serve as a fast optical pump of a raby crystal. Ruby consists of a dilute solution of chromium 3 ions in a sapphire (AI2O3) lattice and is representative of many metal ion-doped solids that are useful as solid-state lasers, phosphors, and other luminescing materials. The radiative and nonradiative relaxation processes in such systems are important in determining their emission efficiencies, and these decay paths for the electronically excited Cr ion will be examined in this experiment. 

Luminescence is light emission from materials caused by other processes, such as light absorption, chemical reaction, impact with electrons, radioactivity, or mechanical shock. 

Electrons (or holes) in a solid can be accelerated by an electric field. However, they can easily lose energy by phonon emission (i.e. by exciting lattice vibrations). Therefore a high field is necessary, so that the gain from the field exceeds the loss to the phonons. Since the path-length in a solid is small, the luminescent center concentration should be high a limit may be set by concentration quenching. The impact processes to be considered are schematically depicted in Fig. 10.16. 

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