Photosensitive materials

Substituted Hydantoins. 5-Methylhydantoin [616-03-5] has been selected from several stmctures as a formaldehyde scavenger for color photosensitive materials and water-thinned inks and coatings (102,103). 

Phototypesetting represented an easier way to compose type. Eady phototypesetters used an optical process, whereby a disk of characters, ia different sizes and typefaces, was spun under computer control. Each character was projected ia turn onto photosensitive film or paper. This was followed by systems where characters drawn on a cathode ray tube (CRT) exposed the photosensitive material. In each case, the operator iateracted with the system at a video screen that only showed the characters of the text (the iaformation content) and codes that iadicated how the characters were to look on paper. An experienced operator was required to obtain high quaUty results. 

The photoelectric effect (the creation of an electrical current when light shines on a photosensitive material connected m an electrical circuit) was first obseiwed in 1839 by the French scientist Edward Becqiierel. More than one hundred years went by before researchers in the United States Bell Laboratories developed the first modern PV cell in 1954. Four years later, PV was used to power a satellite in space and has provided reliable electric power for space exploration ever since. 

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Since the photosensitive material and the electronics layer are very thin, the detector is mounted on a mechanical package for structural integrity. This package is thermally matched to the detector so that the detector will not be stretched or compressed during the large transition from room temperature to operating temperature. 

Get the light into the detector. This may sound trivial, but unless a good anti-reflection coating is used, a significant fraction of the light will be reflected at the surface of the photosensitive material. 

Charge generation. Once the light is within the volume of the photosensitive material, the photon energy must be absorbed and converted to charge. The photon energy creates electron-hole pairs. 

Charge collection. Electric fields within the photosensitive material collect charge into pixels. The detector can be designed to collect either electrons or holes. 

Metal and polysilicon films are formed by a chemical-vapor deposition process using organometallic gases that react at the surface of the IC structure. Various metal silicide films may also be deposited in this manner by reaction with the surface of the silicon wafer to form metal silicides. Glass and pol3uner films are deposited or spin cast or both, as are photoresist films (those of a photosensitive material). This process is accomplished by applying a liquid polymer onto a rapidly rotating wafer. The exact method used varies from manufacturer to manufacturer and usually remains proprietary. 

We have already mentioned amorphous silicon solar cells. New processes have been developed to manufacture solar cells based upon deposition of very thin films of photosensitive materials. Such processes have a distinct cost advantage since once the films are deposited, little further processing is needed to form the final solar cell module. 

Fig. 2.14 The scheme of the cylindrical lens method for diffusion coefficient measurement (1) the source with the horizontal slit (2) the condenser supplying a handle of parallel beams (3) the cuvette with a refraction index gradient where the beams are deflected (4) the objective lens focusing the parallel beams to a single point (5) the optical member with an oblique slit and a cylindrical lens (6) the photosensitive material...

The optode transduces the non-optical signal from the environment to the optical one, readable by the photodetector. Various indirect optical sensors and theirs applications are described in literature35. The optode can work as a chemical sensor that detects certain analytes in aqueous solutions or in air on chemical way. It means that changes in the environment cause the changes in the photosensitive material, which is immobilized in the optode matrix. These chemical changes influence the observed light intensity (for example, due to absorption) or one can analyze the intensity or time decay of luminescence. There are numbers of publications devoted to the family of optical chemical sensors36. 

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For UV and visible radiation, the simplest detector is a photomultiplier tube. The cathode of the tube is coated with a photosensitive material (such as Cs3Sb, K CsSb, or Na2KSb, etc.) which ejects a photoelectron when struck by a photon. This photoelectron is then accelerated towards a series of anodes of successively greater positive potential (called dynodes). At each dynode, the electron impact causes secondary electron emission, which amplifies the original photoelectron by a factor of 106 or 107. The result is a pulse of electricity of duration around 5 ns, giving a current of around 1 mA. This small current is fed into the external electronics and further amplified by an operational amplifier, which produces an output voltage pulse whose height is proportional to the photomultiplier current. 

Diazonium salts are also useful as a photosensitive material in a photobleachable two-layer resist system based on a doping process (10). High-resolution resist patterns were obtained using this two-layer resist scheme and an i-line reduction projection aligner. 

The gratings can also be made in situ by holographic irradiation as was demonstrated for low molecular stilbenes in a polystyrene matrix [197]. Here, the spatial modulation of gain dominates over the refractive index modulation in its contribution to optical feedback. The principles of holographic irradiation will be described in Section VIII, which discusses photosensitive materials. 

Yamaguchi K, Udono H (2007) Novel photosensitive materials for hydrogen generation through photovoltaic electricity. Int J Hydrogen Energy (in press)... 

Three-dimensional (3D) structuring of materials allows miniaturization of photonic devices, micro-(nano-)electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), micro-total analysis systems (yu,-TAS), and other systems functioning on the micro- and nanoscale. Miniature photonic structures enable practical implementation of near-held manipulation, plasmonics, and photonic band-gap (PEG) materials, also known as photonic crystals (PhC) [1,2]. In micromechanics, fast response times are possible due to the small dimensions of moving parts. Femtoliter-level sensitivity of /x-TAS devices has been achieved due to minute volumes and cross-sections of channels and reaction chambers, in combination with high resolution and sensitivity of optical con-focal microscopy. Progress in all these areas relies on the 3D structuring of bulk and thin-fllm dielectrics, metals, and organic photosensitive materials. 

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