caa a22 4500 386338353 CHVBK 20180307111740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1557/S0883769400062874 doi S0883769400062874 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1557/S0883769400062874 Brown Frederick C. The Unique Electronic Properties of the Silver Halides [Elektronische Daten] [Frederick C. Brown] The modern photographic emulsion is an extremely sensitive detector of light quanta. In fact, high speed black-and-white film (which consists mainly of microcrystalline grains of AgBr or AgBrI suspended in gelatin on an inert base) ranks with the photomultiplier tube as capable of detecting a very few individual light quanta. Exposure times can vary from minute fractions of a second to hours. Unlike the multiplier tube, the photographic emulsion also responds well to relatively high light flux, that is, film can have wide exposure latitude. In many respects such as sensitivity, latitude, resolution, etc., film sets the pace as new multiplier tubes and charge-coupled devices are developed. Of course, the high sensitivity of film comes about because light absorbed within an emulsion grain causes a latent image to be formed (usually on the surface), which then renders the entire grain developable. The tabular grains of a modern high speed emulsion are largely triangular or hexagonal single-crystal platelets approximately 10 ü across and 0.1 ü thick. Such a grain will contain about 109 silver atoms, and it can be sensitized by a few molecules of gold sulfide or other additives adsorbed on its surface. In the concentration speck theory of the latent image, light is absorbed throughout the grain, but this energy is transported by the motion of electrons to a sensitivity center usually on the surface where the latent image is formed. Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989 MRS Bulletin Cambridge University Press 14/5(1989-05), 17-22 0883-7694 14:5<17 1989 14 MRS https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400062874 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1557/S0883769400062874 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brown Frederick C. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- MRS Bulletin Cambridge University Press 14/5(1989-05), 17-22 0883-7694 14:5<17 1989 14 MRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge