Complete Elimination of Specular Reflectance in Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Measurements
| Autor: | Robert G. Messerschmidt |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
| Předmět: |
Diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform
business.industry Chemistry Infrared Scattering 010401 analytical chemistry Infrared spectroscopy 01 natural sciences Fourier transform spectroscopy 0104 chemical sciences 010309 optics Optics 0103 physical sciences Specular reflection Diffuse reflection business Spectroscopy Instrumentation |
| Zdroj: | Applied Spectroscopy. 39:737-739 |
| ISSN: | 1943-3530 0003-7028 |
| Popis: | The Kubelka-Munk relationship is the equation most commonly used to describe the reflectance from a scattering medium. This equation breaks down, however, in several important situations in the mid-infrared. Most notably, the relationship does not account for specular reflectance, which is simply the energy reflected from the front surface of the sample. When a sample reflects diffusely and specularly, as do all real-world samples, there is a specular reflectance spectrum superimposed on the diffuse reflectance spectrum, and deviations from this equation occur. In the case of organic samples, this causes a curved line (concave downward) for the plot of f(R∞) or Kubelka-Munk units vs. sample weight percent in a nonabsorbing matrix. For inorganic samples, the effect can be more severe. Since the specular reflectance of inorganic bands can be much greater than organics, often complete band inversions (reststrahlen bands) or derivative shaped peaks result. In either case, quantitative analysis is not straightforward, and in the latter case, even qualitative interpretation is difficult. |
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