Martin Magnuson

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of MAX-phase carbides and nitrides from an electronic-structure and chemical bonding perspective is presented, and the trend and relationship between the chemical bonding, conductivity, elasticity, magnetism and other material properties of the MAX phases in comparison to the parent binary MX compounds with the underlying electronic structure probed by polarized X-ray spectroscopy.

TL;DR: The result is that the Mn Lα,β x-ray fluorescence spectra of MnO excited by selected photon energies near the L2,3 absorption edges are measured, and the resulting resonant inelastic x-rays scattering spectra probe low-lyi scattering zones.

TL;DR: The crystal structure and chemical bonding of magnetron-sputtering deposited nickel carbide Ni₁-xCx thin films have been investigated and it is shown that the resistivity is not only governed by the amount of carbon, but increases by more than a factor of two when the samples transform from crystalline to amorphous.

TL;DR: In this article, a carbon-containing nickel carbide thin film was investigated using high-resolution X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, Xray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopic analysis, and soft Xray absorption spectra.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that a rapid transition from a resonant Raman to an Auger-like regime shows that core-excited states above threshold are not localized enough to significantly enhance the photoemission intensity, implying a large fraction of incoherent intensity.