The effect of oxygen on sensitization of AgBrI crystals with anionic dye

A mechanism is suggested for the effect of oxygen on spectral sensitization of AgBrI microcrystals (MCs) with anionic dye adsorbed on the surface, which adequately describes the changes of both luminescent and spectral-sensitometric properties of this system. It is shown that the effect of oxygen on the spectral sensitization of AgBrI MC with anionic dye cannot be explained only by desensitization of the AgBrI MC sensitivity as has been suggested in the literature, but rather its effect on the spectral sensitization of AgBrI MC was not so unambiguous. In the framework of the suggested mechanism such ambiguity is due to the fact that the Ag+ and Ag 2 + silver centers that participate in the generation recombination processes and are different in structure, interact on the surface of the AgBrI MC with different aggregate forms of the dye, which are in turn differently affected by oxygen. Understanding physicochemical processes occurring in the considered system allows using the obtained results in holographic and spectrozonal photographic materials, gas-phase sensors, and in solar-energy systems.