Photoacoustic And Diffuse Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometry: Complementary Or Supplementary Techniques?

S. Agyare Yeboah; Peter R. Griffiths; K. Krishnan; Donald Kuehl

doi:10.1117/12.932140

29 October 1981 Photoacoustic And Diffuse Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometry: Complementary Or Supplementary Techniques?

S. Agyare Yeboah, Peter R. Griffiths, K. Krishnan, Donald Kuehl

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Proceedings Volume 0289, 1981 Intl Conf on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy; (1981) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932140
Event: 1981 International Conference on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, 1981, Columbia, United States

Abstract

Measurement of the spectrum of certain types of solid samples has always presented infrared spectroscopists with a problem. Although some solids can be pressed into a KBr disk, ground into a mineral oil mull, contacted with an internal reflection element, or even pressed into a self-supporting wafer, by no means all samples fall into one of these categories. For example, recognizable spectra of chunky polymer samples which are not easily ground or dissolved, and which are too hard to afford good contact with an ATR plate, are always difficult to measure. Similarly the problems of measuring the spectra of species adsorbed on the surface of catalysts and other adsorbents have usually given surface chemists some difficulty. If the sample is pressed into a self-supporting wafer and the transmittance spectrum is measured after the fashion first described by Eischens, scattering at high wavenumber and absorption by the adsorbent (typically below 1200 cm^-1 for silica and alumina) severely reduce the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the measured spectrum. Another less commonly recognized problem with this type of sampling technique is that once the wafer is pressed, the surface area available to the adsorbate is considerably reduced.

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S. Agyare Yeboah, Peter R. Griffiths, K. Krishnan, and Donald Kuehl "Photoacoustic And Diffuse Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometry: Complementary Or Supplementary Techniques?", Proc. SPIE 0289, 1981 Intl Conf on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, (29 October 1981); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932140

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