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The Formation and Spectroscopic Manifestation of
Inorganic Clusters on Silver Bromide Interfaces
Alfred Marchetti
The photographic process is enhanced by treating the silver halide (AgX)
microcrystals, that is micrometer sized crystals of AgCl, AgBr or AgBr/I,
with labile sulfur and or gold compounds or with reducing agents. It has
been shown that these materials deposit sulfur, gold or silver centers on
the surface of the silver halide microcrystal surface. It is generally
thought that any one treatment may produce several different 'clusters'. We
have used a combination of low temperature photoluminescence, magnetic
resonance and computational techniques to elucidate the structure and
photophysics of a number of these small inorganic clusters.
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