Picosecond kinetics of the primary electronic processes in the formation of the latent image in microscopic silver halide crystals
Starobogatov I. O. , Belyaev A. G. , Vinogradov S. V. , Neporent B. S. , Nikolaev S. D., Stasel'ko D. I. , Shilov V. B.
Picosecond spectroscopy reveals that the fastest primary processes in the formation of the latent-image centers in microscopic AgBr(I) crystals occur in times in the picosecond range and are accompanied by a sensitization of the system to long-wavelength light. This sensitization decays over hundreds of picoseconds. A model is proposed for the kinetics of the effect.