Electromagnetic Radiation,Wave-lengths and Nomenclature

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Wavelength

Frequency

Energy

Band

> 100m <300 kHz < 1.2 10-8eV Longwave
10-100 m 3-30 MHz 1.2-12 10-8eV Shortwave
1-10 m 30-300 MHz 1.2-12 10-7eV VHF
10 cm - 1m 300 MHz - 3 GHz 1.2-12 µeV UHF
1 mm - 30 cm 1-300 GHz 4 µeV - 1 meV Microwave - wavelength definitions vary - generally spreads from Infrared to Radio-Band
    700 nm -10 µm 3000-430,000 GHz 12 meV - 1.8 eV Infrared
    400-700 nm 4.3-7.5 1014 Hz 1.8-3.8 eV Visible Light
    100-400 nm 7.5 -30 1014 Hz 3.1-12.4 eV Ultra-violet
    0.1-10 nm 3-300 1016 Hz 0.12-12 keV X-Ray
    < 100 pm > 3 1018 Hz >10 keV Gamma-Ray

    09-Oct-02 Matthias Messer