Infrared regions

Fast time resolved infrared attached to flow and to uv-vis flash photolysis has been an important development for the study of rapid substitution, e.g. in Co2(CO)r in hexane and 

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The aromaticity factor (ratio of the number of aromatic carbons to the total number of carbons), identical to that given by the ndM method or the Brandes method in the infrared region. 

The so-called peak power delivered by a pulsed laser is often far greater than that for a continuous one. Whereas many substances absorb radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, relatively few substances are colored. Therefore, a laser that emits only visible light will not be as generally useful as one that emits in the ultraviolet or infrared ends of the spectrum. Further, witli a visible-band laser, colored substances absorb more or less energy depending on the color. Thus two identical polymer samples, one dyed red and one blue, would desorb and ionize with very different efficiencies. 

As the wavelength moves into the infrared region, it is more common to change units from nanometers to micrometers (microns). For example. 10,600 nm would be written as 10.6 pm. 

Neodymium and YAG Lasers. The principle of neodymium and YAG lasers is very similar to that of the ruby laser. Neodymium ions (Nd +) are used in place of Cr + and are often distributed in glass rather than in alumina. The light from the neodymium laser has a wavelength of 1060 nm (1.06 xm) it emits in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Yttrium (Y) ions in alumina (A) compose a form of the naturally occurring garnet (G), hence the name, YAG laser. Like the ruby laser, the Nd and YAG lasers operate from three- and four-level excited-state processes. 

For radiofrequency and microwave radiation there are detectors which can respond sufficiently quickly to the low frequencies (<100 GHz) involved and record the time domain specttum directly. For infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiation the frequencies involved are so high (>600 GHz) that this is no longer possible. Instead, an interferometer is used and the specttum is recorded in the length domain rather than the frequency domain. Because the technique has been used mostly in the far-, mid- and near-infrared regions of the spectmm the instmment used is usually called a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer although it can be modified to operate in the visible and ultraviolet regions. 

In the far-infrared region strong absorption by the water vapour normally present in air necessitates either continuously flushing the whole optical line with dry nitrogen or, preferably, evacuation. 

If was nof until fhe developmenf of Fourier fransform infrared (FTIR) specfromefers (see Section 3.3.3.2) fhaf fhe possibilify of using an infrared laser routinely was opened up. The intensify advanfage of an infrared interferometer, wifh which a single specfrum can be obfained very rapidly and fhen many specfra co-added, coupled wifh fhe developmenf of more sensitive Ge and InGaAs semiconductor infrared defectors, more fhan compensate for fhe loss of scatfering intensify in fhe infrared region. 

In choosing fhe examples of lasers discussed in Sections 9.2.1 to 9.2.10 many have been left ouf. These include fhe CO, H2O, HCN, colour cenfre, and chemical lasers, all operating in fhe infrared region, and fhe green copper vapour laser. The examples fhaf we have looked af in some defail serve to show how disparate and arbifrary fhe materials seem to be. For example, fhe facf fhaf Ne atoms lase in a helium-neon laser does nof mean fhaf Ar, Kr and Xe will lase also - fhey do nof. Nor is if fhe case fhaf because CO2 lases, fhe chemically similar CS2 will lase also. 

Absorption and Fluorescence Spectra. The absorption spectra of actinide and lanthanide ions in aqueous solution and in crystalline form contain narrow bands in the visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared regions of the spectmm (13,14,17,24). Much evidence indicates that these bands arise from electronic transitions within the and bf shells in which the Af and hf configurations are preserved in the upper and lower states for a particular ion. 

The range of photon energies (160 to 0.12 kJ/mol (38-0.03 kcal/mol)) within the infrared region corresponds to the energies of vibrational and rotational transitions of individual molecules, of electronic transitions in many semiconductors, and of vibrational transitions in crystalline lattices. Semiconductor electronics and crystal lattice transitions are beyond the scope of this article. 

Ai- 4-(bis[4-(phenylamino)phenyl]methylene)-2,5-cyclohexadien-l-ykdene -3-methyl-ben2eneaminesulfate [57877-94-8] (20) have been claimed as positive CCAs (65). The absorption spectra of the triaryknethane dyes can be extended into the near-infrared region. The use of triaryknethane dyes as infrared absorbers for optical information recording media (66) and as infrared color formers in carbonless copy paper has been claimed. 

The photoconductive detector is primarily used in the visible-infrared region rather than the ultraviolet—visible range. 

In order to develop the dyes for these fields, characteristics of known dyes have been re-examined, and some anthraquinone dyes have been found usable. One example of use is in thermal-transfer recording where the sublimation properties of disperse dyes are appHed. Anthraquinone compounds have also been found to be usehil dichroic dyes for guest-host Hquid crystal displays when the substituents are properly selected to have high order parameters. These dichroic dyes can be used for polarizer films of LCD systems as well. Anthraquinone derivatives that absorb in the near-infrared region have also been discovered, which may be appHcable in semiconductor laser recording. 

Fig. 1. Spectral sensitivity ranges for undyed semiconductors. Lack of sensitivity in the visible and infrared regions necessitates the use of spectral...

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