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Chapter 21 Avi
Chapter 21 Avi
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
ISSUES TO ADDRESS...
• What happens when light shines on a material?
• Why do materials have characteristic colors?
• Why are some materials transparent and other not?
• Optical applications:
--luminescence
--photoconductivity
--solar cell
--optical communications fibers
Chapter 21- 1
LIGHT INTERACTION WITH SOLIDS
• Incident light is either reflected, absorbed, or
transmitted:Io = IT + IA + IR
Incident: I : oIR
Reflected
Absorbed
Transmitted :AIT
Chapter 21- 2
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS:
ABSORPTION
• Absorption of photons by electron transition:
re-emitted photon
from material
surface
incident photon
energy h
Adapted from Fig. 21.5(a), Callister 6e. Adapted from Fig. 21.5(a), Callister 6e.
• Ex: “coating
fluorescent
glass lamps
white” light
UV
e.g., β-alumina
radiation
doped
w/Europium
Chapter 21- 8
APPLICATION: PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY
•conducting
- .Description:
+
Incident
semi
A
B Incident
No incident
Energy
filled
unfilled
E
radiation:
ofstates
electron
gap states
radiation:
electron
conductor:
radiation
little current current
increased flow flow
Chapter 21- 9
APPLICATION: SOLAR CELL
• p-n junction: • Operation:
pn-type
p-n
hB-doped
B
S
P
conductance
Si
ole
i-type
-doped
junction
Si
Si Si --incident photon produces hole-elec. pair.
electron --typically 0.5V potential.
--current increases w/light intensity.
creation
n-type
p
p-n
light
- -type
+ junction
Si
Siof
hole-electron
pair
polycrystalline Si
Los Alamos High School weather
station (photo courtesy
P.M. Anderson)
Chapter 21- 10
APPLICATION: FIBER OPTICS
• Design with stepped index of refraction (n):
Adapted from Fig. 21.19, Callister 6e. (Fig. 21.19 adapted from S.R. Nagel, IEEE
Communications Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 34, 1987.)
Adapted from Fig. 21.20, Callister 6e. (Fig. 21.19 adapted from S.R. Nagel, IEEE
Communications Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 34, 1987.)
Core Problems:
Self-help Problems:
Chapter 21- 0