2007/10/30 by Mladen Georgiev, Georgiev, Mladen · 1 citation
Chemical Engineering · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions #Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions #physics.chem-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0710.5754
20 pages including 8 (15) figures, all pdf format
arxiv created 2007/10/30 · openalex publication_date 2007/10/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A survey is presented of the work done so far to check earlier claims that a fine structure may be observed to occur under certain circumstances in the impurity spectral range of the optical absorption spectra of silver halides following photostimulation in the intrinsic range. This structure, associated with the photochemical formation of silver specks, has been questioned over the years. We now weigh carefully the experimental evidence on the silver halides against a background of similar data on the alkali halides, where competing processes run slower. We come to the conclusion that present day advances in experimental techniques may be quite adequate for providing a solid experimental basis to solve the problem unambiguously.