Radiant power absorbed

The parameter that directly measures how efficiently incident photons are converted to electrons is the IPCE. The wavelength-dependent IPCE term can be expressed as a product of the quantum yield for charge injection ( ), the efficiency of collecting electrons in the external circuit (17), and the fraction of radiant power absorbed by the material or light harvesting efficiency (LHE), as represented by Equation 17.8 ... 

The quantitative relationship between fluorescence power and analyte concentration can be derived from the number of molecules in the excited state and the radiant power absorbed by the processed sample ... 

The factor / represents the so-called oscillator strength given by quantum mechanical relationships the symbols e and m denote the electron charge and the electron mass, respectively. In order to obtain a result directly proportional to the number of atoms, the radiant power absorbed at the absorption line has to be measured in AAS, i.e. the incident 4>o) as well as the transmitted 4>x) radiant power have to be ascertained. Equation 2.18 can be modified as follows ... 

AAS measures the discrete radiation absorbed when ground state atoms are excited to higher energy levels by the absorption of a photon of energy. The radiant power of the absorbed radiation is related to the absorption coefficient of the ground state atoms using the... 

Second Law Bernard s (1852) or Beer s (1852) Law defines that— the radiant power of a beam of parallel monochromatic radiation decreases in a similar manner as the concentration of the light-absorbing constituent increases . Thus we have ... 

The procedure may start with the reference experiment, which, in the case under analysis, involved a solution of ferrocene in cyclohexane (ferrocene is a nonphotoreactive substance that converts all the absorbed 366 nm radiation into heat). With the shutter closed, the calorimeter was calibrated using the Joule effect, as described in chapter 8, yielding the calibration constant s. The same solution was then irradiated for a given period of time t (typically, 2-3 min), by opening the shutter. The heat released during this period (g0, determined from the temperature against time plot and from the calibration constant (see chapter 8), leads to the radiant power (radiant energy per second) absorbed by the solution, P = /t. ... 

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recommends that the definition should now be based on the ratio of the radiant power of incident radiation (Pq) to the radiant power of transmitted radiation (P). Thus, A = log(Po/P) = log T. In solution, Pq would refer to the radiant power of light transmitted through the reference sample. T is referred to as the transmittance. If natural logarithms are used, the quantity, symbolized by P, is referred to as the Napierian absorbance. Thus, B = ln(Po/P). The definition assumes that light reflection and light scattering are negligible. If not, the appropriate term for log(Po/P) is attenuance. See Beer-Lambert Law Absorption Coefficient Absorption Spectroscopy... 

Quinolizidine alkaloid analysis also utilizes the X-ray method, which is based on the absorption of X-rays, diffraction of X-rays, wavelength, and radiant power measurements of X-rays. When an atom is excited by the removal of an electron from an inner shell, it usually returns to its normal state by transferring an electron from some outer shell to the inner with the consequent emission of energy as an X-ray. The X-ray method is applied to quinolizidine alkaloids which have a crystalline form. In this sense it is the same as the RTG methods, which can be applied only to crystalline materials. X-rays can be absorbed by material and this gives rise to X-ray absorption spectra . The spectrum provides material for the identification of compounds. 

Transmittance (T) Ratio of radiant power transmitted by sample to radiant power incident to it Absorbance (A) Logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the transmittance Absorptivity (a) Ratio of the absorbance to the product of the concentration and the length of the optical path. (If only one cell is used for all the work, the path length will be constant and can be left out of all ealens without introducing an e rror. To simplify the ealen, all measurements were made with the same 0.209mm cell. Hence, all the absorptivities were referred to a 0.209mm [ basis)... 

A= Absorbance = logj0l/T(T is Transmittance - ratio of radiant power transmitted by sample to radiant power incident to it) and a a -Mean Absorptivity of above compound... 

Band intensities are expressed as either transmittance (T) or absorbance (A). Transmittance is the ratio of the radiant power transmitted by a sample to the radiant power incident on the sample. Absorbance is the base 10 logarithm of the reciprocals of the transmittance A = logi0T. Quantitative measurements in the infrared usually begin with Beer s law and its analogs ... 

The extended light source may also be placed at the axis of a reactor composed of two coaxial cylindrical tubes (Figure 12). The emitted radiant power is absorbed by the reaction system contained in the annular reactor volume. Irradiance diminishes in a filled reactor with increasing radius (Eq. 36), this geometry is called the negative geometry of irradiation [2,3]. 

The tiny absorbance values associated with quantitative near-infrared spectroscopy render these measurements extremely sensitive to slight variations in spectrometer alignment. Indeed, slight differences in incident radiant power between the sample and reference spectra create small positive or negative offsets along the absorbance axis. Such offsets are commonly observed for near-infrared spectra of aqueous solutions, as is apparent in the spectra presented in Figure 13.3. 

Quantitatively, absorption is often expressed as absorbance (A), which is the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the spectral radiant power of incident, essentially monochromatic (of A wavelength), radiation (P°) to the radiant power of transmitted radiation (P.y. 

As in AAS the absorbance A depends on the ratio of the incident radiant power d>0 and the transmitted radiant power dv according to the Beer-Lambert law... 

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