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A number of diamagnetic defects are also beheved to exist in vitreous siUca. Because there is no direct way to study these species, their identification is either done indirecdy, such as by uv absorption, or by employing esr after the material has been made paramagnetic using ionizing or laser irradiation. 

The laser induces instantaneous vaporization of a microvolume (called a plume), and a mixture of ionized matrix and analyte molecules is released into the vacuum of the ion source. The relationship between the laser irradiance, I ascn and the number of molecules formed, Gma di, is most peculiar. There exists a threshold irradiance, peculiar to each matrix, below which ionization is not observed. Above this level, the ion production increases in a very strong, nonlinear, manner (often Gma di grows as Ilaser is raised to the eighth power). 

An important quantity that can be deduced from the reaction profile is the rate of the cross-linking polymerization (Rp), i.e., the number of double bonds polymerized or of cross-links formed per second. Rp values were determined from the maximum slope of the kinetic curves (usually reached for conversion degrees between 20 and 40%). Table I summarizes the Rp values for the two photoresists tested under various conditions, namely conventional UV and continuous or pulsed laser irradiation at different light intensities. According to these kinetic data, Rp increases almost as fast as the light-intensity the ratio Io/Rp which is directly related to the product of the light-intensity and the required exposure time was found to vary only in the range 10-8 to... 

At laser irradiances of typically about 10 Wcm and above, dense plasmas are formed from any solid sample, as is well documented by the large number of laser fusion experiments. In this mode of operation, energy is deposited into the solid during the initial... 

Thin Sections or pieces of the rock about 1 mm in size or less can be also analyzed with this instrument at glancing incident irradiation, if the site to be analyzed is close to the surface of the section or the edge of a fraction. However in this mode of operation, mass resolution is severely reduced. Nevertheless ions can be identified because of their low mass numbers and the very low background in the spectra, by known cluster patterns or by comparison with reference spectra obtained with reduced laser irradiation. The spectra have shown to be highly reproducible. For more precise bulk. sample analysis, other instruments such as the LAMMA 1000 are more suited. Their lateral resolution is 1-3 pm in diameter and the depth of analysis is typically 0.1 pm. 

Laser-induced desorption of CO and CO+ from Pt(l 11) is observed by Fukutani et al. [12]. Upon laser irradiation on the CO-saturated Pt(l 1 1) surface at X = 193 nm with a laser fluence of 4mJ/cm2 for 10, 20, and 30 min, the on-top CO decreases gradually in RAIRS intensity, as shown in Fig. 12b-d, respectively. The effects of laser irradiation are clearly demonstrated in the difference spectra shown in Fig. 12. On-top CO decreases, while bridge CO remains unchanged. Neutral CO desorbed from the surface is clearly observed by the REMPI method. In addition to neutral species, CO+ ion desorption is also observed. Figure 19 displays the evolution of the desorption yield as a function of accumulated incident photon numbers at X = 193 nm with a laser fluence of 5.6 mJ/cm2 after a CO exposure of 2 L. Decay rates of the desorption intensity represented by an exponential decay are identical for neutral and ion species within the experimental error and the cross section s is 3 x 10 19 cm2. This result suggests that neutral CO molecules and CO+ ions are desorbed from the same adsorption species. 

A large number of papers has appeared on the subject of excimer laser exposure of polymer films (16-21). Most of these have dealt with the phenomenon of photoablation. A few have observed intensity dependent photochemistry (22,23). The latter authors were concerned with the effect of exposure intensity on resist development characteristics. The utility of nonlinear photochemistry for image modification has not been explored except in our earlier communication, in which strongly nonlinear irreversible bleaching was observed for KrF laser irradiation of acridine/PMMA films with lOnsec pulses (5). 

The requirements for chemical actinometers, listed in the previous sections [such as sensitivity, reproducibility, (thermal) stability, ease of analytical procedure, etc.], reduce the seemingly unlimited number of actinometers reported over the years (9) to a short list of well-established and highly recommended chemical actinometers. In this section, we first present a selected list of such reliable actinometers, which all operate in the liquid phase. After that, a few controversial systems are described and their potential error sources discussed. Finally, actinometric procedures suitable for solid-state applications, polychromatic sources, and laser irradiation will be introduced in section "Special Applications."... 

Irradiation also affects the course of more conventional separation processes. Visible and ultraviolet light have been found to affect plutonium solvent extraction by photochemical reduction of the plutonium (12). Although the results vary somewhat with the conditions, generally plutonium(VI) can be reduced to pluto-nium(IV), and plutonium(IV) to plutonium(III). The reduction appears to take place more readily if the uranyl ion is also present, possibly as a result of photochemical reduction of the uranyl ion and subsequent reduction of plutonium by uranium(IV). Light has also been found to break up the unextractable plutonium polymer that forms in solvent extraction systems (7b,c). The effect of vibrational excitation resulting from infrared laser irradiation has been studied for a number of heterogeneous processes, including solvent extraction (13). 

The solid-sample preparation is usually achieved by the deposition on a metallic surface of the solution of matrix and analyte with a concentration suitable to obtain the desired analyte/matrix ratio. The solution is left to dry under different conditions (simply at atmospheric pressure, reduced pressure, or under a nitrogen stream). This method is usually called the Dried Droplet Method. In all cases, what is observed is the formation of an inhomogeneous solid sample, due to the different crystallization rate of the matrix and analyte. Consequently, the 10 molar ratio is only a theoretical datum In the solid sample, different ratios will be found in different positions and the only way to overcome this is to average a high number of spectra corresponding to laser irradiation of different points. 

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