Time Dependence of the Metastable, Optically-Induced Esr in a-Si:H

1986 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lee ◽  
W. D. Ohlsen ◽  
P. C. Taylor

ABSTRACTThe occurrence of optically-induced, metastable changes in the paramagnetism in films of a-Si:H is well known. The effect was first observed with white light in powdered samples, but recent experiments with both white and monochromatic light incident on films on substrates have observed a similar effect. This optically-induced ESR appears to be stable at temperatures < 400 K. Typical inducing curves for samples with initial dark spin densities ns > 1016 spins/cm3 approach a power law behavior (ns ∼ t1 / 3) at long times. However, when the dark spin density is less than 1016 spins/cm3, the samples exhibit an inducing curve (on a log-log scale) with a continuously decreasing slope. The curve does not exhibit a unique power law behavior over an extended range of time and is at all times < t1 / 3.

1991 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-K. Lee ◽  
E. A. Schiff

ABSTRACTThe dependence of the spin density upon temperature and charge depletion is calculated based on the standard defect model in a-Si:H of a D-center with positive, neutral, and negative charge states. The results are compared with recent measurements of depletion width modulated spin densities and temperature-dependent spin densities. It is shown that the initial charge density assumed for the defect system substantially affects conclusions regarding electronic correlation energies drawn from the measurements.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan L. Souman ◽  
Tobias Borra ◽  
Iris de Goijer ◽  
Luc J. M. Schlangen ◽  
Björn N. S. Vlaskamp ◽  
...  

Studies with monochromatic light stimuli have shown that the action spectrum for melatonin suppression exhibits its highest sensitivity at short wavelengths, around 460 to 480 nm. Other studies have demonstrated that filtering out the short wavelengths from white light reduces melatonin suppression. However, this filtering of short wavelengths was generally confounded with reduced light intensity and/or changes in color temperature. Moreover, it changed the appearance from white light to yellow/orange, rendering it unusable for many practical applications. Here, we show that selectively tuning a polychromatic white light spectrum, compensating for the reduction in spectral power between 450 and 500 nm by enhancing power at even shorter wavelengths, can produce greatly different effects on melatonin production, without changes in illuminance or color temperature. On different evenings, 15 participants were exposed to 3 h of white light with either low or high power between 450 and 500 nm, and the effects on salivary melatonin levels and alertness were compared with those during a dim light baseline. Exposure to the spectrum with low power between 450 and 500 nm, but high power at even shorter wavelengths, did not suppress melatonin compared with dim light, despite a large difference in illuminance (175 vs. <5 lux). In contrast, exposure to the spectrum with high power between 450 and 500 nm (also 175 lux) resulted in almost 50% melatonin suppression. For alertness, no significant differences between the 3 conditions were observed. These results open up new opportunities for lighting applications that allow for the use of electrical lighting without disturbance of melatonin production.


1974 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. 349-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Favella ◽  
L. Liuzzi ◽  
F. Bartoli

The physical and mathematical characteristics of white light, monochromatic light, and laser light, are discussed with reference to the advantages offered by perimetry using a red helium-neon laser.


1993 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoxiang Ai

AbstractThe historical development of optical instruments for solar physics is outlined, from white light to unpolarized and polarized monochromatic light, to Stokes profiles and simultaneous fields of view, from points to lines, plane to cube. An evolutionary series and classificaton of instruments for the solar magnetic field is described. As a next step the 2-D real time polarizing spectrograph has been proposed. The planned instruments in China for measurements of solar magnetic and velocity fields are briefly introduced.


1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 1827-1833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chr. Mengersen ◽  
J. Subramanian ◽  
J.-H. Fuhrhop ◽  
K. M. Smith

The isotropic 205Tl hyperfine couplings obtained from the ESR spectra of the radical cations of Tl (III) meso tetraphenyl porphyrin (TPP), octaethyl porphyrin (OEP) and octaethyl chlorin (OEC) are reported. The radical cations were generated by electrooxidation in dichloromethane as solvent. A Karplus-Fraenkel type bilinear relation is used to interpret the 205Tl couplings, taking into account the sigma-pi spin polarization of Tl -N bonds by the spin density at the nitrogen atoms in the ligand as well as the direct pi interaction of the orbitals of Tl with the pi orbitals of the ligand. It is shown that for the cation radicals of Tl porphyrins, both these mechanisms contribute to the Tl couplings whereas for the cation radicals of Co- and Zn-porphyrins the sigma-pi polarization alone is sufficient to account for the metal hyperfine couplings. It is suggested that Tl-hyperfine couplings can be used to estimate the nitrogen spin densities of porphyrin radical systems when the nitrogen splittings are not resolved in the ESR spectra.


1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (27) ◽  
pp. 4721-4728 ◽  
Author(s):  
M C Tringides ◽  
C M Soukoulis ◽  
P Lavenberg

1. When reading a recent paper before the Royal Society, and also in the Press, Dr. Edridge Green has stated that he can find no connection between the luminosity and the colour sense of persons having either normal or abnormal colour sensations. Since I feel that to allow such a statement to go unchallenged might be interpreted as meaning that no such connection could be shown to exist, I propose in the following paper to place before the Society some of the evidence which indicated that there is in reality a very intimate relation between luminosity and colour sense. The results given include a small part of those which have been obtained in a series of experiments which have occupied the last two years and form part of investigation which is still in progress. The term “luminosity” as used in this paper has the following meaning: Suppose that light from some source, such as the electric arc, is admitted to a spectroscope by means of which a real pure spectrum is produced, and that a slide in the plane in which the spectrum is formed carries a slit of fixed width. Light of sensibly one wave-length, i. e. monochromatic light, will pass through this slit, and by means of a lens placed in the beam of this light an image of the first face of the prism which is used to from the spectrum can be formed on a screen. In this way a monochromatic patch of light is obtained, the brightness of which depends on the nature of the source of light, the width of the collimator slit, the width of the slit placed in the spectrum, which for short will be called the movable slit, and the dimensions of the lenses employed. Further, if alongside this coloured patch is formed a white patch of light produced by light which proceeds from the same source but has not undergone dispersion, and that by some means or other the intensity of this white light is altered till the coloured and white light, measured in any arbitrary units, measure the luminosity of the light of that colour which is passing through the movable slit. Since the unit in which the white light is measured is arbitrary, we are not concerned with the absolute intensity of illumination of the white patch, and may use any device we like to alter the quantity of white light which falls on the screen so long as we are able to measure the ratio of the quantity of light employed in different experiments. It will further be observed that for any given person the measurement of the luminosity of a given coloured light in the spectrum involves the comparsion of the brightness of the coloured patch as it appears to him with the brightness of the white patch as it appears to him.


1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. S. Wright

Cercariae of Trichobilharzia ocellata exhibited a significant directed response to white light starting at an illuminance level of 0.35 lx. When exposed to an equal energy spectrum of monochromatic light (irradiance = 0.22 μW/cm2), the most significant directed response occurred at 500 nm. Swimming in response to illuminance reduction varies inversely as the preadaptation irradiance levels.


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