Showing papers in "Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena in 2011"

TL;DR: In this article, a technique is described for deposition of gold nanoparticles under vacuum, enabling consistent energy referencing of X-ray photoelectron spectra obtained from lanthanum hydroxide La(OH)3 and in situ treated Lanthanum oxide La2O3 powders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report several interrelated XPS investigations of the Cr 2p3/2 system that provide additional interpretation of the cr2O3 spectra, along with more detail on the reaction mechanisms between O2 gas and H2O vapour with metallic Cr.

TL;DR: In weakly bonded matter, efficient autoionization channels have been found, in which not only the initially excited state, but also neighbouring atoms or molecules take part as discussed by the authors, which are known as Interatomic or Intermolecular Coulombic Decay (ICD).

TL;DR: In this paper, a face-to-face method was proposed to synthesize high quality epitaxial graphene, and the structure and morphologies of the samples were characterized by low-energy electron diffraction, atomic force microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approximate method to determine the Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ ratio in a sample is suggested based on the fitting of the sample's 2p X-ray photoelectron spectra with a superposition of Fe 2 + and Fe 3+ 2p spectra.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the recent progress in the study of interatomic decay phenomena in singly and multiply ionized clusters is presented, with a focus on Coulombic decay.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the implementation of K-shell core level spectroscopies (X-ray absorption (XAS), X-ray emission (XES), and Xray photoemission (XPS)) in the real-space-grid-based Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) GPAW code.

TL;DR: The AS-1 attosecond beamline at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics as discussed by the authors is a phase-stabilized few-cycle laser system for the generation of XUV radiation, and modules tailored for the spectral filtering and isolation of attoscond pulses as well as for their temporal characterization.

TL;DR: A new energy and angle resolved analyzer for photoelectron spectroscopy is described in this paper, which is based on combining an advanced focusing electron lens system with time-of-flight measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, single crystals of orthorhombic multiferroics RMn2O5 and hexagonal manganite YMnO3 were grown at room temperature with the ESCALAB 250 microprobe system with monochromatization of the exciting X-ray radiation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simplified model was proposed to calculate resonant X-ray emission spectra with 2p to 5d excitation and 2p nl to 2p de-excitation for mixed valence Ce compounds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the O 1 s -edge of MTiO 3 (ilmenite: Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni) and found that the X-ray absorption spectra of each ilmenite showed the existence of not only oxygen-metal charge transfer but also intermetallic charger transfer.

TL;DR: In this article, the spin-orbit induced Rashba splitting of Shockley-type surface states is discussed using a fully relativistic description, and the impact of chemical disorder within surface layers can be handled by the coherent potential approximation (CPA) alloy theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the angular dependence of the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) signal is influenced not only by the electron take-off angle, but also by instrument-related geometrical factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ionization site-dependent fragmentation of cyclic biomolecules was studied using electron-energy-resolved photoelectronphotoion-photoion coincidence spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this article, high resolution 4f photoelectron spectra have been measured from Au, Pb, and Bi vapors using synchrotron radiation and the fine structure splitting created by the coupling of the 4f core hole to the open 6p shell has been found to manifest itself in this high resolution experiment as slightly different line widths for 4f spin components.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of resonant photoemission in the core-hole clock expression for the study of dynamical charge transfer across hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces and the intermolecular charge transfer in the bulk of organic thin films is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, photoelectron and Auger electron coincidence spectroscopy was used to study the dynamics of core hole decay in the BESSY II synchrotron radiation source.

TL;DR: A photoionization aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ATOFMS) was developed for on-line analysis of organic compounds in aerosol particles using tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) synchrotron radiation as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and resonance inelastic Xray scattering (RIXS) measurements of CdO thin film were presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent results on spectroscopy and dynamics of free molecules is presented, mainly concerned with processes of core excitation and decay of isolated molecules, primarily investigated by resonant Auger Spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the electron effective attenuation length (EAL) dependency on kinetic energy for gold from 1-keV up to 15-kV using two different approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, the ionization and excitation spectra of the valence and core electrons of formamide in the gas phase were studied with density functional theory, with an average absolute deviation of only 0.1 eV from experiment for all twelve MOs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided new insights into the chemistry of substituent effects and on the effect of molecular conformation on inner-shell ionization energies in a large variety of complex molecules.

TL;DR: In this paper, the field of high kinetic energy photoelectron spectroscopy (HIKE) has been explored in 3rd generation synchrotron light sources and electron spectrometers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a laser-plasma EUV source based on a gas puff target was used for micro-and nanostructuring of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyylene naphthalate (PEN) and poly-oxydiphenylene-pyromellitimide (Kapton HN) foils.

TL;DR: In this article, a Fourier-Transform-Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance mass spectrometer has been installed at the BESSY II storage ring to record soft X-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism spectra (XMCD) of mass-selected clusters in the photon energy range 200-1200 eV.

TL;DR: In this article, the first core-level photoelectron spectroscopic study of solid nanoparticles in liquid water was presented, where SiO(2)-based with an average diameter of 70 nm and function function was performed.

TL;DR: In this article, the performance of chirped pulse amplification at single pass free-electron laser (FEL) amplifier is studied through numerical simulations using 1D time-dependent code GOFEL-P.

TL;DR: In this paper, X-ray emission spectra (RXES) of barium titanate powder were measured at several temperatures to investigate the microscopic origin of the tetragonal-cubic phase transition.