- Title
- The design and construction of a recording spectrometer for the measurement of fluorescence excitation spectra in the vacuum ultra-violet region
- Creator
- Davidson, A T
- ThesisAdvisor
- Baart, E E
- Date
- 1963
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:21177
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6761
- Description
- Summary: A recording spectrometer for the measurement of fluorescence excitation spectra in the visible and ultra-violet regions of the spectrum is described. A direct method of modulating the hydrogen light source of the spectrograph is presented, whereby the discharge is driven by an A.C. power oscillator. The use of tuned amplifiers in the detecting unit is investigated as a means of eliminating the D.C. component of the dark current. Aspects of the modulation method are discussed. Fluorescence and energy transfer in aromatic hydrocarbon is discussed with particular regard to anthracene. Some absorption, fluorescence, excitation and reflection spectra of anthracene obtained by previous workers are presented9 together with Tables listing the wavelengths of principal maxima for the above spectra published in the literature. Features of the excitation spectrum of anthracene are discussed and are related to its absorption and fluorescence spectra. The role of surface effects, defects and impurities are discussed in relation to the fluorescence of anthracene. The method of A.C. detection was unable to resolve the excitation spectrum of anthracene due to the high noise level associated with the method. However, peaks in the ultra-violet region of the hydrogen molecular spectrum were recorded at a modulation frequency of 400 Kc/sec. The noise level is explained and ways of improving the signal to noise ratio of the A.C. detection system are suggested. It is concluded that D.C. detection is a simpler and more direct way of measuring excitation spectra. No modulated signals were detected when the hydrogen discharge was excited at 6·5 Mc/sec. Signals were recorded at modulation frequencies of 400 Kc/sec . The degree of modulation at 400 Kc/sec. increased with decrease in the pressure of the hydrogen discharge.
- Format
- 93 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Physics
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Davidson, A T
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