Transfer admittance

In ac impedance measurement at ITIES, admittance due to the transfer of supporting electrolyte ions is significant even in the middle of the potential window, as was first suggested and treated quantitatively by Samec et al. [35]. This imposes a difficulty in accessing double layer capacitance from the admittance, particularly when the transfer of supporting electrolyte ions is not reversible. There is no straightforward way to deconvolute the admittance ascribable to double layer capacitance and that ascribable to ion transfer admittance [30]. A nonlinear least-squares... 

Transmittance may be transfer admittance or transfer impedance. The four external variables of a two-port black box (Figure 8.1(a)) are vi and ii (first port), V2 and i2 (second port). There are four possible ratios Vi/ii, V2/i2, Vi/i2 and V2/ii- These ratios may be inverted so actually there are eight possible ratios. If the signals are sine waves, most of the ratios have their special names ... 

A two-port four-electrode black box may use port 1 for controlled current excitation and port 2 for zero current potential measurement. The ratio excitation current to measured potential is called admittance [siemens]. However, it is transfer admittance, implying that the transfer admittance is a transmission parameter and therefore strongly dependent on the distance between port 1 and 2. Therefore transfer admittance is not directly characterizing the tissue. 

Yii or Y22 is the driving point admittance and measured with excitation and response at the same port. The transfer admittances Y12 and Y21 are defined as ... 

The variable v is independent, i is dependent, and both transfer admittances are specified with one of the ports short-circuited. 

These studies have indicated that the independent parameters controlling the postulated solid-phase reactions significantly affect the resulting acoustic admittance of the combustion zone, even though these reactions were assumed to be independent of the pressure in the combustion zone. In this combustion model, the pressure oscillations cause the flame zone to move with respect to the solid surface. This effect, in turn, causes oscillations in the rate of heat transfer from the gaseous-combustion zone back to the solid surface, and hence produces oscillations in the temperature of the solid surface. The solid-phase reactions respond to these temperature oscillations, producing significant contributions to the acoustical response of the combustion zone. 

By tradition, electrochemistry has been considered a branch of physical chemistry devoted to macroscopic models and theories. We measure macroscopic currents, electrodic potentials, consumed charges, conductivities, admittance, etc. All of these take place on a macroscopic scale and are the result of multiple molecular, atomic, or ionic events taking place at the electrode/electrolyte interface. Great efforts are being made by electrochemists to show that in a century where the most brilliant star of physical chemistry has been quantum chemistry, electrodes can be studied at an atomic level and elemental electron transfers measured.1 The problem is that elemental electrochemical steps and their kinetics and structural consequences cannot be extrapolated to macroscopic and industrial events without including the structure of the surface electrode. 

In our opinion, the interesting photoresponses described by Dvorak et al. were incorrectly interpreted by the spurious definition of the photoinduced charge transfer impedance [157]. Formally, the impedance under illumination is determined by the AC admittance under constant illumination associated with a sinusoidal potential perturbation, i.e., under short-circuit conditions. From a simple phenomenological model, the dynamics of photoinduced charge transfer affect the charge distribution across the interface, thus according to the frequency of potential perturbation, the time constants associated with the various rate constants can be obtained [156,159-163]. It can be concluded from the magnitude of the photoeffects observed in the systems studied by Dvorak et al., that the impedance of the system is mostly determined by the time constant. 

We discuss the application of the valence bond method to systems with delocalized bonds, namely, metallic and anionic systems. We show that the admittance of extra orbitals in these systems is necessary, leading to new types of structures, which are related to processes of charge transfer. 

Microdielectrometry was introduced as a research method in 1981 14 and became commercially available in 1983 20). The microdielectrometry instrumentation combines the pair of field-effect transistors on the sensor chip (see Sect. 2.2.3) with external electronics to measure the transfer function H(co) of Eq. (2-18). Because the transistors on the sensor chip function as the input amplifier to the meter, cable admittance and shielding problems are greatly reduced. In addition, the use of a charge measurement rather than the admittance measurement allows the measurements to be made at arbitrarily low frequencies. As a matter of practice, reaction rates in cure studies limits the lowest useful frequency to about 0.1 Hz however, pre-cure or post-cure studies can be made to as low as 0.005 Hz. Finally, the differential connection used for the two transistors provides first-order cancellation of the effects of temperature and pressure on the transistor operation. The devices can be used for cure measurements to 300 °C, and at pressures to 200 psi. 

In a PEIS experiment, the flux of minority carriers generated by illumination is constant to a good approximation, and if the condition 1/a < dSc + L is fulfilled, then g 7(0). The ac potential perturbs the density of majority carriers at the surface and therefore modulates knc about a mean (dc) value, giving rise to an ac photocurrent. The photoelec-trochemical admittance, (VVeis = 1/ZPE1S), is the ratio of the ac component of the total photocurrent to the ac voltage. For competition between recombination and electron transfer, the photoelectrochemical admittance is given by [29]... 

V0/V/ (fti), to the analytical expression with recovery of the complete quartz impedance near resonance (admittance, conductance and impedance). Although the voltage divider method does not measure the transfer function phase and hence it is not possible to demonstrate the validity of BVD circuit, it has the advantage of speed. Also passive methods like TFM can be applied under high viscous damping so that the shear wave phase never crosses zero and the EQCM no longer resonates. 

The selection of impedance or admittance for presentation of experimental results and data analysis is dependent on the type of equivalent electric circuit. For instance, for the analysis of -> charge-transfer processes and -> double-layer charging, the impedance may be preferred, while for the resonance circuits (e.g., in piezometric systems) the admittance may offer advantages. 

For CFB reactors further aspects have to be taken into account restricted range of admittable particle properties increased particle attrition decreased suspension-to-wall heat transfer coefficients more complexity in designing and operating the circulating loop higher capital costs. 

The efficiency of electron-transfer reduction of Cgo can be expressed by the selfexchange rates between Coo and the radical anion (Ceo ), which is the most fundamental property of electron-transfer reactions in solution. In fact, an electrochemical study on Ceo has indicated that the electron transfer of Ceo is fast, as one would expect for a large spherical reactant. This conclusion is based on the electroreduction kinetics of Ceo in a benzonitrile solution of tetrabutylammonium perchlorate at ultramicroelectrodes by applying the ac admittance technique [29]. The reported standard rate constant for the electroreduction of Ceo (0.3 cm s ) is comparable with that known for the ferricenium ion (0.2 cm s l) [22], whereas the self-exchange rate constant of ferrocene in acetonitrile is reported as 5.3 x 10 s , far smaller than the diffusion limit [30, 31]. 

Four state variables may be defined, for example, for the rotating disk described in Qiapter 11. These may include the rotation speed, the temperature, the current, and the potential. At a fixed temperature, three variables remain from which a transfer function may be calculated. As shown in Table 7.1, the generalized transfer functions include impedance, admittance (see Chapter 16), and two types of electrohydrodynamic impedance (see Chapter 15). 

Impedance data are presented in different formats to emphasize specific classes of behavior. The impedance format emphasizes the values at low frequency, which t5rpically are of greatest importance for electrochemical systems that are influenced by mass transfer and reaction kinetics. The admittance format, which emphasizes the capacitive behavior at high frequencies, is often employed for solid-state systems. The complex capacity format is used for dielectric systems in which the capacity is often the feature of greatest interest. 

Figure 12.27 shows a schematic IMPS respouse for a mouocrystalhue semiconductor electrode. It is easy to confuse IMPS plots with EIS plots since both contain semicircles. However the quantity displayed in an IMPS plot is not an impedance or an admittance it is the dimensionless transfer function corresponding to the ratio of the elecuon flux to the photon flux. The interpretation of the phase relationship between photocurrent and illumination requires some care. A response in the first upper quadrant indicates that the photocurrent leads the illumination. A response in the lower quadrant indicates that the photocurrent lags behind the illumination. In the schematic response shown in Pig. 12.27, the low-frequency response in the upper quadrant of the complex plane arises from surface... 

The inverse of impedance is called admittance, Y s) = HZ s). These are transfer functions that transform one signal (e.g., applied voltage), into another (e.g., current). Both are called immittances. Some other transfer functions are discussed in Refs. 18, 35, and 36. It should be noted that the impedance of a series coimection of a resistance and capacitance, Eq. (6), is the sum of the contributions of these two elements resistance, R, and capacitance, HsC. 

Experimentally measured ac current or total admittances are functions of the electrode potential. Figure 17 presents the dependence of the total admittances of a process limited by the diffusion of electroactive species to and from the electrode and the kinetics of the charge-transfer process, on the electrode potential. Information on the kinetics of the electrode process is included in the faradaic impedance. It may be simply... 

The above analysis shows that in the simple case of one adsorbed intermediate (according to Langmuirian adsorption), various complex plane plots may be obtained, depending on the relative values of the system parameters. These plots are described by various equivalent circuits, which are only the electrical representations of the interfacial phenomena. In fact, there are no real capacitances, inductances, or resistances in the circuit (faradaic process). These parameters originate from the behavior of the kinetic equations and are functions of the rate constants, transfer coefficients, potential, diffusion coefficients, concentrations, etc. In addition, all these parameters are highly nonlinear, that is, they depend on the electrode potential. It seems that the electrical representation of the faradaic impedance, however useful it may sound, is not necessary in the description of the system. The systen may be described in a simpler way directly by the equations describing impedances or admittances (see also Section IV). In... 

The terminology used for the transfer function requires some care. If the input function is an intensive quantity such as voltage (also called an across function), and the output function is an extensive quantity such as current (also called a through function), the ratio of output to input can be referred to as an admittance. If the type of input and output functions are reversed, then the ratio becomes an impedance. If the input and output functions are both of the same type, the ratio of output to input can be referred to as a gain function. However, these conventions, which are usually employed in network analysis, have not always been followed consistently in the development of new photoelectrochemical techniques. For example, the frequency dependent photocurrent efficiency, O, shown in Table 1 is often referred to as the opto-electrical admittance and its inverse as the opto-electrical impedance [62, 64-66], in spite of the fact that it is the ratio of two through functions. It would be preferable to use the term opto-electrical transfer function. The inverse of has also been called the photoelectrochemical impedance [53, 70]. To avoid confusion, the use... 

Fig. 4.6 AC admittance (a) and PMF responses (b) in TIR for the transfer of Ru(bipy)3 from water to DCE. The continuous and dashed lines correspond to the real and imaginary components of the frequency-dependent signals, respectively. Reprinted with permission from Ref. [15].

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