Infrared Refraction Spectroscopy

2021 ◽  
pp. 000370282110367
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Mayerhöfer ◽  
Vladimir Ivanovski ◽  
Jürgen Popp

We suggest a new modality of infrared spectroscopy termed Infrared Refraction Spectroscopy, which is complimentary to absorption spectroscopy. The beauty of this new modality lies not only in its simplicity but also in the fact that it closes an important gap: It allows to quantitatively interpret reflectance spectra by simplest means. First, the refractive index spectrum is calculated from reflectance by neglecting absorption. The change of the refractive index is proportional to concentration, and the spectra with features similar to second derivative absorbance spectra can simply be computed by numerically deriving the refractive index spectra, something which can be easily carried out by standard spectra software packages. The peak values of the derived spectra indicate oscillator positions and are approximately proportional to the concentration in a similar way as absorbance is. In contrast to absorbance spectra, there are no baseline ambiguities for first derivative refractive index spectra, and in refractive index spectra, instead of integrating over a band area, a simple difference of two refractive index values before and after an absorption leads to a quantity that correlates perfectly linearly with concentration in the absence of local field effects.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Feifei Tao ◽  
Haibo Yao ◽  
Zuzana Hruska ◽  
Yongliang Liu ◽  
Kanniah Rajasekaran ◽  
...  

In this study, visible-near infrared spectroscopy over the spectral range of 400–2500 nm was utilized to detect surface contamination of corn kernels with aflatoxin B1. The artificially contaminated samples were prepared by dropping known amounts of aflatoxin B1 standard dissolved in 50:50 ( v/ v) methanol/water solution, onto corn kernel surface to achieve different contamination levels of 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, and 1000 ppb. Both endosperm and germ sides of corn kernels were used for artificial contamination, and a total of 210 contaminated and control kernels were scanned with the visible-near infrared spectroscopy in reflectance mode. Spectral preprocessing methods including standard normal variate, first derivative, second derivative, first derivative + standard normal variate, and second derivative + standard normal variate were applied on the original absorbance spectra. Using the original and preprocessed spectra, the 3-class and 7-class discriminant models were established by the chemometric methods of principal component analysis-linear discriminant analysis and partial least squares discriminant analysis separately. The results showed that in discriminating the aflatoxin B1 contamination levels, the spectral range II (1120–2470 nm) generally performed better than using the corresponding spectra type over range I (410–1070 nm). Compared to using the original spectra, the first derivative and second derivative spectra generally improved the performance of the classification models. For classification thresholds of 20 and 100 ppb in aflatoxin B1, the best 3-class models achieved the same overall accuracy of 98.6% for prediction over both ranges I and II. For the 7-class discriminant models, the best overall accuracies obtained over ranges I and II are 91.4 and 97.1% for prediction.


1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1060-1068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vojtěch Bekárek ◽  
Jan Juřina

Dependence of ET(30) of solvent parameters on relative permittivity (ε) and refractive index (n) of solvent has been found for forty solvents in the form ET(30)=29.87 + 72.03 (ε - 1/(2ε + 1)-29.16(ε - 1) (n 2 - 1)/(2ε + 1) (2n2 + 1), the correlation coefficient being 0.958. Relation has been discussed between ET(30) and π solvent parameters and significance of the term (ε - 1). (n2 - 1)/(2ε + 1) (2n2 + 1) has been tested for evaluation of solvent effects in electronic spectra.>


1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1047-1057 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Bertie ◽  
Zhida Lan

The previously reported nonreproducibility of the intensity of the OH stretching band of liquid water has been explored. It was found that it can be eliminated in measurements with the Circle® multiple ATR cell by ensuring that the ATR rod is coaxial with the glass liquid holder. It was also found that normal laboratory temperature variations of a few degrees change the intensity by ⩽∼1% of the peak height. A new imaginary refractive index spectrum of water has been determined between 4000 and 700 cm1 as the average of spectra calculated from ATR spectra recorded by four workers in our laboratory over the past seven years. It was obtained under experimental and computational conditions superior to those used previously, but is only marginally different from the spectra reported in 1989. In particular, the integrated intensities of the fundamentals are not changed significantly from those reported in 1989. The available imaginary refractive index, k, values between 15,000 and 1 cm−1 have been compared. The values that are judged to be the most reliable have been combined into a recommended k spectrum of H2O(l) at 25 °C between 15,000 and 1 cm−1, from which the real refractive index spectrum has been calculated by Kramers–Kronig transformation. The recommended values of the real and imaginary refractive indices and molar absorption coefficients of liquid water at 25 ± 1 °C are presented in graphs and tables. The real and imaginary dielectric constants and the real and imaginary molar polarizabilities in this wavenumber range can be calculated from the tables. Conservatively estimated probable errors of the recommended k values are given. The precision with which the values can be measured in one laboratory and the relative errors between regions are, of course, far smaller than these probable errors. The recommended k values should be of considerable value as interim standard intensities of liquid water, which will facilitate the transfer of intensities between laboratories.


2018 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Weeratouch Pongruengkiat ◽  
Thitika Jungpanich ◽  
Kodchakorn Ittipornnuson ◽  
Suejit Pechprasarn ◽  
Naphat Albutt

Refractive index and Abbe number are major physical properties of optical materials including glasses and transparent polymers. Refractive index is, in fact, not a constant number and is varied as a function of optical wavelength. The full refractive index spectrum can be obtained using a spectrometer. However, for optical component designers, three refractive indices at the wavelengths of 486.1 nm, 589.3 nm and 656.3 nm are usually sufficient for most of the design tasks, since the rest of the spectrum can be predicted by mathematical models and interpolation. In this paper, we propose a simple optical instrumental setup that determines the refractive indices at three wavelengths and the Abbe number of solid and liquid materials.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Paschalidis ◽  
Ilias IIordanidis ◽  
Petros Anagnostopoulos

Abstract The purpose of this study is the evaluation of runoff and sediment transport in the basin of the Nestos River (Northern Greece) downstream of the dam of Platanovrisi, constructed in 1998. The model used for the simulation was AGNPS, which is based on the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), combined with a GIS interface. Two different simulations were conducted, one for the years 1980-1990 and another for the period 2006-2030, before and after the construction of the dam respectively. For the simulation for the period 1980-1990 existing meteorological data were employed, and the results were in good agreement with those of a different study (Hrissanthou, 2002). The simulation for the period 2006-2030 was based on rainfall and climatic data generated from the software packages GlimClim and ClimGen. The mean runoff was by 5% lower and the mean annual sediment yield by 20% lower than the corresponding values for the period 1980-1990.


2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 561-565
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

Cr2O3 thin films have been prepared by spray pyrolysis on a glass substrate. Absorbance and transmittance spectra were recorded in the wavelength range (300-900) nm before and after annealing. The effects of annealing temperature on absorption coefficient, refractive index, extinction coefficient, real and imaginary parts of dielectric constant and optical conductivity were expected. It was found that all these parameters increase as the annealing temperature increased to 550°C.


2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1063-1073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yerzhan Imanbayev ◽  
Yerdos Ongarbayev ◽  
Yerbol Tileuberdi ◽  
Evgeniy Krivtsov ◽  
Anatoly Golovko ◽  
...  

Transformations of high-molecular-weight compounds of oil sand natural bitumen under the heat treatment were studied in this work. For that purpose the natural bitumen isolated from oil sand taken from the Beke field (Kazakhstan) was used as a substrate. Thermal processing of natural bitumen leads to a general change in the chemical composition of components and to an increase in the output of certain fractions. The contents of oil, tar and asphaltenes were determined and the elemental composition of tar-asphaltene compounds was evaluated. Molecular structures of the tar and asphaltene components of natural bitumen before and after cracking have been defined from the data of elemental analysis, NMR spectroscopy and molecular weight. The high molecular compounds were presented as giant molecules containing small aromatic islands some of which were linked by aliphatic chains, that was proved by infrared spectroscopy.


1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Todd Kuenstner ◽  
Karl H. Norris

Absorbance and first and second derivative absorbance spectra and quarter-millimolar absorptivity coefficients for hemoglobin species including oxy-, deoxy-, carboxy- and methemoglobin in the visible and in the near infrared regions from 620 nm to 2500 nm are presented. At wavelengths longer than 1500 nm, the absorbance and second derivative absorbance spectra of hemoglobin species are similar for all of the species. Absorption bands are present centred at 1690, 1740, 2056, 2170, 2290 and 2350 nm.


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