Mercury cadmium telluride MCT

The source is usually a temperature-stabilized ceramic filament operating around 1500K. The detector in FTIR is usually a deuterium triglycine sulphate (DTGS) detector, although in RAIRS experiments the liquid nitrogen-cooled mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) detector is employed. 

The experiments described here were performed with a Digilab FTS40 Fourier transform instrument, with a liquid nitrogen-cooled Mercury Cadmium Telluride, (MCT), detector. The instrument is provided with a computer for data acquisition, storage and mathematical treatment. P-polarized incident light was obtained by means of an A1 wire-grid polarizer supported on a BaF2 substrate. 

FT-IR microspectroscopy is a new nondestructive, fast and rehable technique for solid-phase reaction monitoring. It is the most powerful of the currently available IR methods as it usually requires only a single bead for analysis, thus it is referred to as single bead FT-IR [166]. (See also Chapter 12 for further details). The high sensitivity of the FT-IR microscope is achieved thanks to the use of an expensive liquid nitrogen-cooled mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) detector. Despite the high cost of the instrument, this technique should become more widely used in the future as it represents the most convenient real-time reaction monitoring tool in SPOS [166, 167]. 

Singh HB, Sudha N (1996) OrganoteUurium precursors for metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of mercury cadmium telluride (MCT). Polyhedron 15(5-6), 745-763... 

FTIR Microspectroscopy.3 A microscope accessory coupled to a liquid-nitrogen-cooled mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) detector can be used to obtain an IR spectrum. This is possible in both the transmission and reflectance modes. Several beads are spread on an IR-transparent window (NaCl, KBr, diamond) and possibly flattened via a hand-press or a compression cell. The IR beam is focused on a single bead using the view mode of the microscope. The blank area surrounding the bead is isolated using an adjustable aperture, and a spectrum is recorded using 32 scans (<1 min). A nearby blank area of the same size on the IR transparent window is recorded as the background. 

All of the infrared experiments were performed on a Digilab FTS-40 Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer equipped with a narrow-band liquid-nitrogen-cooled mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) detector. The spectrometer was operated at a nominal resolution of 4 cm-1 using a mirror velocity of 1.28 cm/s. The data collected using the gas chromatography (GC) IR software were measured at 8 cm-1 resolution. Protein assays for all the experiments were measured on a Beckman DU-70 UV-visible spectrophotometer. 

The use of an ATR accessory normally requires a Mercury-Cadmium-Telluride (MCT) detector to achieve enough sensitivity. The detector requires liquid nitrogen cooling, which limits the on-site usage of this method. 

The basic optical setup was shown in Fig. 12 [90]. The spectra were recorded on a commercially available spectrometer equipped with an external PM setup. The photoelastic modulator modulated the polarization of the IR light at a fixed frequency. Demodulation was performed with a lock-in amplifier and a low-pass filter. After the IR beam passes through the polarizer and modulator, it is focused on the sample, then focused on an mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) detector cooled by liquid nitrogen. 

Recently, time-resolved experiments have been performed that employ molecular vibrations of the radicals to allow their detection.The concept is similar to the TROA technique, but instead uses strong IR absorptions in a radical to monitor its concentration dependence. To date this technique has been employed to examine RPs containing benzoyl radicals using the carbon-oxygen double bond stretching frequency close to 1800 cm This technique has the potential to extend the range and type of RPs available for study. The technique relies on the use of a solid-state IR diode laser and a fast mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) detector. 

Quantum detectors are usually made of semiconductor materials or mixtures. Some commonly used quantum detectors are made of lead sulfide (PbS), lead selenide (PbSe), indium antimony (InSb), or mercury cadmium telluride (MCT, HgTe-CdTe). The absorption of infrared radiation in quantum detectors excites electrons... 

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