Photon light energy

A theme which will run tluough this section is the complementarity of light and the molecule with which it interacts. The simplest example is energy when a photon of energy E = tia is absorbed by a molecule it disappears, transferring the identical quantity of energy E = 1j(odj.- cdj) to the molecule. But this is only one of... 

Light is generated in semiconductors in the process of radiative recombination. In a direct semiconductor, minority carrier population created by injection in a forward biased p-n junction can recombine radiatively, generating photons with energy about equal to E. The recombination process is spontaneous, individual electron-hole recombination events are random and not related to each other. This process is the basis of LEDs [36]. 

The energies of the various contributions are quantised , i.e., in a given state the isolated molecule may possess one of a discrete set of values these values are often referred to as energy levels. When a molecule absorbs light, its energy is momentarily increased by an amount equal to that of the photon. The energy is related to the wave length (X) and frequency (v) by the equation ... 

Each photon represents a quantum of light energy. A quantum of light energy absorbed by a photosynthetic pigment has four possible fates (Figure 22.8) ... 

A hundred years ago it was generally supposed that all the properties of light could be explained in terms of its wave nature. A series of investigations carried out between 1900 and 1910 by Max Planck (1858-1947) (blackbody radiation) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (photoelectric effect) discredited that notion. Today we consider light to be generated as a stream of particles called photons, whose energy E is given by the equation... 

Experiments had shown that a beam of light shining on an object exerts a pressure, and this, in turn, implies that a photon has momentum. Quantitative measurements of the pressure exerted by light showed that a simple equation relates the momentum of light (p) to its energy E — c As we have already described, light energy also is... 

Chemically pure semiconducor materials can absorb only those photons, the energy hv of which exceeds the band gap E . Therefore, E. value determines the "red boundary of the light that is used in photocatalytic action of these materials. By way of example. Table 1 presents the values of Eg and the corresponding values of boundary wave length Xg= hc/E (where c is the velocity of light) for some semiconductor and dielectric oxides [2]. However, a semiconductor PC can be sensitized to light with X> by chemical modifications of its surface layer or adsorption of certain molecules on its surface, provided that such treatment creates additional full or empty electron levels in the band gap of the semiconductor material. 

A Raman spectrum consists of scattered intensity plotted versus energy each peak corresponds to a given Raman shift from the incident light energy. If the molecule happens to be in an excited vibrational state when an incident photon is scattered,... 

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