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Influence of Local Environment on Inner Shell Excitation Spectra, Studied by Electron and X-ray Spectroscopy and Spectromicroscopy

  • Adam P. Hitchcock EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 9, 2017
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie Volume 232 Issue 5-6

Abstract

Inner shell excitation spectroscopy is a local probe of the unoccupied electronic structure in the immediate vicinity of the core excited atom. As such, one might expect the inner shell spectrum of a given unit (a molecular fragment or a repeat unit of a solid) to be largely independent of where that unit is located. This is often an implicit assumption in spectral analysis and analytical applications. However, there are situations where inner shell excitation spectra exhibit significant sensitivity to their local environment. Here I categorize the ways in which inner shell spectra are affected by their local environment, and give examples from a career dedicated to developing a better understanding of inner shell excitation spectroscopy, its experimental techniques, and applications.

Keywords: electron energy loss; inner shell excitation spectroscopy; STXM; X-ray absorption

Dedicated to: Eckart Rühl on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge the many and diverse scientific collaborations I have had with Professor Eckart Rühl – we have over 25 joint publications, dating from 1989 through to 2014. It has been an honor to work together with him and his group, and a real pleasure to have him as a lifelong friend. The funding needed to acquire the ISEELS and STXM results presented in this article has been provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). STXM results have been recorded using several beamlines at the ALS (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), funded by the Basic Energy Sciences division of the US Department of Energy, and with the ambient STXM on beamline 10ID1 at the Canadian Light Source (CLS, Saskatoon) which is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, NSERC, the University of Saskatchewan, the Government of Saskatchewan, Western Economic Diversification Canada, the National Research Council Canada, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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Received: 2017-10-20
Accepted: 2017-10-28
Published Online: 2017-12-9
Published in Print: 2018-5-24

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https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2017-1061
Keywords for this article
electron energy loss; inner shell excitation spectroscopy; STXM; X-ray absorption

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  4. The Effect of Natural Osmolyte Mixtures on the Temperature-Pressure Stability of the Protein RNase A
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