Photon energy conversion

Kudo, A., Development of photocatalyst materials for water splitting with the aim at photon energy conversion, ]. Ceram. Soc. Jpn., 109, S81, 2001. 

Development of Photocatalyst Materials for Water Splitting with the Aim at Photon Energy Conversion See Entry 13 above. 74... 

Betz G., Fiechter S. and Tributsch H. (1987), Photon energy conversion and storage with a light-driven insertion reaction , J. Appl. Phys. 62, 4597-4605. 

Surface Enhanced Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy (SEHRS) Hyper-Raman scattering is a nonlinear three-photon energy conversion process, that offers complementary informahon to Raman spectroscopy and has some advantages... 

Lasers act as sources and sometimes as amplifiers of coherent k—uv radiation. Excitation in lasers is provided by external particle or photon pump sources. The high energy densities requked to create inverted populations often involve plasma formation. Certain plasmas, eg, cadmium, are produced by small electric discharges, which act as laser sources and amplifiers (77). Efforts that were dkected to the improvement of the energy conversion efficiencies at longer wavelengths and the demonstration of an x-ray laser in plasma media were successful (78). 

This problem asks if red and blue photons can cause potassium metal to lose electrons. We must analyze the energy requirements for ejection of an electron. No electrons will be ejected unless the energy of the photons exceeds some threshold value characteristic of the metal. If the photon energy exceeds this threshold value, electrons will be ejected with kinetic energy given by Equation. An important part of this problem is the conversion of photon frequency to photon energy. 

Direct Photolysis. Direct photochemical reactions are due to absorption of electromagnetic energy by a pollutant. In this "primary" photochemical process, absorption of a photon promotes a molecule from its ground state to an electronically excited state. The excited molecule then either reacts to yield a photoproduct or decays (via fluorescence, phosphorescence, etc.) to its ground state. The efficiency of each of these energy conversion processes is called its "quantum yield" the law of conservation of energy requires that the primary quantum efficiencies sum to 1.0. Photochemical reactivity is thus composed of two factors the absorption spectrum, and the quantum efficiency for photochemical transformations. 

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