Notwithstanding the current excitement surrounding cutting-edge digital imaging techniques, photographic film still provides the highest resolution and most beautiful images of any medium available. For the first time in nearly 20 years, Photographic Sensitivity: Theory and Mechanisms offers a comprehensive, systematic description of the subject, stressing in particular the characteristics of silver halide photography. Topics range from how to prepare silver halide grains and latent image formation to spectral and chemical sensitization to the future of silver halide photography. Based on the author's more than 30 years' experience in the field, Photographic Sensitivity will appeal to a wide range of readers, including students, chemists, and physicists working with silver halide imaging techniques and solid state imaging.
Author(s): Tadaaki Tani
Series: Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 1995
Language: English
Commentary: 52978
Pages: 263
Contents......Page 8
1.1 Overview of Silver Halide Photographic Materials......Page 12
1.2 Characteristics of Silver Halide Photography......Page 17
1.3 Silver Halide Photography Among Various Imaging Systems......Page 20
1.4 Silver Halide and Electronic Photography......Page 24
1.5 Summary......Page 30
2.1 Structure of Silver Halide Grains......Page 33
2.2 Preparation of Silver Halide Grains......Page 41
3.1 Light Absorption and Electronic Structure of Silver Halides......Page 54
3.2 Ionic Properties of Silver Halides......Page 57
3.3 Electronic Properties of Silver Halides......Page 69
3.4 Electron and Positive Hole Traps in Silver Halides......Page 74
4.1 Outline of Mechanism of Latent Image Formation......Page 90
4.2 Electronic and Ionic Processes in Relation to the Concentration Principle......Page 96
4.3 Silver Microclusters as Latent Image Centers......Page 100
5.2 Sensitizing Dyes......Page 120
5.3 Adsorption of Sensitizing Dyes to Silver Halide Grains......Page 131
5.4 Electronic Energy Levels of Sensitizing Dyes Adsorbed on Silver Halide......Page 135
5.5 Quantum Yield of Light-Induced Electron Transfer......Page 141
5.6 Kinetics of Light-Induced Electron Transfer......Page 149
5.7 Back Reaction of Light-Induced Electron Transfer......Page 152
5.8 Mechanisms of Spectral Sensitization, Supersensitization, and Desensitization......Page 158
6.1 Introduction......Page 174
6.2 Sulfur Sensitization......Page 176
6.3 Gold Sensitization and Gold Latensification......Page 185
6.4 Reduction Sensitization......Page 189
6.5 Stabilizers and Antifoggants......Page 192
7.1 Photographic Development Process......Page 209
7.2 Developing Agents......Page 214
7.3 Rate of Development......Page 217
7.4 Photographic Sensitivity in Relation to Development......Page 228
7.5 Image Processing Through Development......Page 230
8.1 Improvement in Efficiency of Image Formation in Relation to Sensitivity and Image Quality......Page 237
8.3 Development of New Photographic Systems......Page 245
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C......Page 251
D......Page 252
F......Page 253
I......Page 254
L......Page 255
M......Page 256
P......Page 257
R......Page 258
S......Page 259
X......Page 263
