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For certain special cases, going to the high intensity limit provides a remarkably simple solution to the quenching problem.. 

High intensity limit (saturation). Consider the rate equation for level 2 of our simple atom, Equation 6a. In the limit of large energy density, this equation reduces to... 

Conversely, In the high Intensity limit where r /4 and where the excited and ground state populations are given by,... 

At low exciting intensities the linewidths (Fig. 7(a)) reach a value of 7.3 + 0.8 MHz in agreement with the lifetime-limited value, and the fluorescence emission rate increases almost linearly. In the high-intensity limit, the peak fluorescence emission rate saturates at 7.2 + 0.7 x 10 photons/s (Fig. 7(b)). As the peak emission rate saturates, the emission rate in the wings of the excitation spectrum continues to increase with intensity, and the linewidth broadens as shown in Fig. 7(a). Actually,... 

Four characteristics of odor are subject to measurement by sensory techniques intensity, detectability, character (quality), and hedonic tone (pleasantness-unpleasantness) (16). Odor intensity is the magnitude of the perceived sensation and is classified by a descriptive scale, e.g., faint-moderate-strong, or a 1-10 numerical scale. The detectability of an odor or threshold limit is not an absolute level but depends on how the odorant is present, e.g., alone or in a mixture. Odor character or qualit) is the characteristic which permits its description or classification by comparison to other odors, i.e., sweet or sour, or like that of a skunk. The last characteristic is the hedonic type, which refers to the acceptability of an odorant. For the infrequent visitor, the smell of a large commercial bread bakery may be of high intensity but pleasant. For the nearby resident, the smell may be less acceptable. 

The availability of high-intensity, tunable X-rays produced by synchrotron radiation has resulted in the development of new techniques to study both bulk and surface materials properties. XAS methods have been applied both in situ and ex situ to determine electronic and structural characteristics of electrodes and electrode materials [58, 59], XAS combined with electron-yield techniques can be used to distinguish between surface and bulk properties, In the latter procedure X-rays are used to produce high energy Auger electrons [60] which, because of their limited escape depth ( 150-200 A), can provide information regarding near surface composition. 

A simple order of magnitude estimate of the rate constants for reaction with ethylene can be made for the high intensity ions in the 5-torr spectrum. Since the average reaction time, limited by neutralization or removal from the ion source is a few milliseconds (see section dealing with sampling conditions and section on ethylene in xenon) we can take 1 msec, as the half-life of these ions in 5-torr ethylene. This leads to k = 10-14 to 10-15 cc. molecule-1 sec.-1 as a rate constant for further reaction with ethylene. The value for 5a found by the kinetic treatment above was 8 X 10 -14. 

Limitations of ECR Plasma. The limitations of ECR plasma are a more difficult process control and more costly equipment due to the added complication of the magnetic field. In addition, lower pressure (10 to 10 Torr) is required, as opposed to 0.1 to 1 Torr for RF plasma deposition, as well as the need for a high-intensity magnetic field. Since there is the added variable of the magnetic field, the processing is more difficultto control. 

For last few years, extensive studies have been carried out on proton conducting inorganic/organic hybrid membranes prepared by sol-gel process for PEMFC operating with either hydrogen or methanol as a fuel [23]. A major motivation for this intense interest on hybrid membranes is high cost, limitation in cell operation temperature, and methanol cross-... 

In the time-domain detection of the vibrational coherence, the high-wavenumber limit of the spectral range is determined by the time width of the pump and probe pulses. Actually, the highest-wavenumber band identified in the time-domain fourth-order coherent Raman spectrum is the phonon band of Ti02 at 826 cm. Direct observation of a frequency-domain spectrum is free from the high-wavenum-ber limit. On the other hand, the narrow-bandwidth, picosecond light pulse will be less intense than the femtosecond pulse that is used in the time-domain method and may cause a problem in detecting weak fourth-order responses. 

A modern variation on the rapid scan spectrometer, which is under development, uses a laser-generated plasma as a high intensity broad-band IR source (65). This method has been used to probe the vc—o absorption of W(CO)6. Another technique TRISP (time-resolved IR spectral photography), which involves up-conversion of IR radiation to the visible, has also been used to probe transients (66). This method has the enormous advantage that efficient phototubes and photodiodes can be used as detectors. However, it is a technically challenging procedure with limitations on the frequency range which depend on the optical material used as an up-converter. 

Regarding the question of the rate of electron transport through polymer films, it is not yet clear what ultimate rate can be achieved. In solar energy applications the important issue is whether the rate can be high enough so that the net electron transfer rate is light intensity limited. 

The propagation of a laser pulse focused in a plasma at high intensity is affected by several linear and nonlinear phenomena, which can modify its amplitude and therefore its possibility to travel in the medium maintaining its original interaction conditions. The main limitation arises from optical diffraction that enables the propagation at the maximum intensity only over the Rayleigh length Z i. 

The instrumentation required for atomic fluorescence measurements is simpler than that used for absorption. As the detector is placed so as to avoid receiving radiation directly from the lamp, it is not strictly necessary to use a sharp-line source or a monochromator. Furthermore, fluorescence intensities are directly related to the intensity of the primary radiation so that detection limits can be improved by employing a high-intensity discharge lamp. 

The sample is continuously irradiated and the fluctuations in the fluorescence intensity arise due to any event which makes the fluorophore unavailable to be excited to the emissive singlet excited state, such as diffusion of the fluorophore out of the detection volume, formation of a dark state, such as a triplet excited state, or photoreaction. The concentration of fluorophore in the detection volume has to be low (10 13—10 8M) so that the fluctuation in the intensity for one molecule is observable over any background emission. The high concentration limit is a consequence of the fact that the correlated photons from single molecules scale with the number of molecules in the detection volume, while the contribution from uncorrelated photons, arising from the emission from different molecules, scales with the square of the number of molecules. The lowest concentration is determined by the probability of finding a molecule in the detection volume.58... 

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