NEXAFS structure

Nearly all of the important chemical (identification of elements, purity, homogeneity, speciation) and physical (roughness, thickness, serie of the layers) parameters of such a structure can be determned non-destructively by X-ray methods (e.g., EDXRS, WDXRS, TXRS, SYXRS, g-XRS, NEXAFS). 

Surface Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure and Near Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure (SEXAFS/NEXAFS)... 

EXAFS is part of the field of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), in which a number of acronyms abound. An X-ray absorption spectrum contains EXAFS data as well as the X-ray absorption near-edge structure, XANES (alternatively called the near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure, NEXAFS). The combination of XANES (NEXAFS) and EXAFS is commonly referred to as X-ray absorption fine structure, or XAFS. In applications of EXAFS to surface science, the acronym SEXAFS, for surface-EXAFS, is used. The principles and analysis of EXAFS and SEXAFS are the same. See the article following this one for a discussion of SEXAFS and NEXAFS. 

Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces as Studied Using Synchrotron Radiation. Faraday Discussions Chem. Soc. 89, 1990. A lively and recent account of studies in EXAFS, NEXAFS, SEXAFS, etc. 

The advantages of SEXAFS/NEXAFS can be negated by the inconvenience of having to travel to synchrotron radiation centers to perform the experiments. This has led to attempts to exploit EXAFS-Iike phenomena in laboratory-based techniques, especially using electron beams. Despite doubts over the theory there appears to be good experimental evidence that electron energy loss fine structure (EELFS) yields structural information in an identical manner to EXAFS. However, few EELFS experiments have been performed, and the technique appears to be more raxing than SEXAFS. 

NEXAFS Near-Edge X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure... 

Recent NEXAFS (11,2A) have confirmed -the ethylldyne structure proposed by LEED analyses (1A,21) and further determined the structure of adsorbed molecular ethylene. Figure 4 shows the NEXAFS spectra for ethylldyne (a) and ethylene (b) on the Pt(lll) surface taken for two Incidence angles of the X-ray beam. The transitions observed In these NEXAFS spectra have been assigned using SCF-Xo calculations (24). For the ethylldyne spectrum taken at 20 Incidence angle peak A Is caused by a C(ls)+o j, transition peak B Is caused by a C(ls)+o (, (, transition. Peak A In the... 

NEXAFS Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (see XANES)... 

XANES X-ray absorption near-edge structure (see NEXAFS)... 

We refrain here from giving an extensive overview of studies on the surface structure of vanadium oxide nanolayers, as this has already been done for up to year 2003 in our recent review [97]. Instead, we would like to focus on prototypical examples, selected from the V-oxide-Rh(l 1 1) phase diagram, which demonstrate the power of STM measurements, when combined with state-of-the-art DFT calculations, to resolve complex oxide nanostructures. Other examples will highlight the usefulness of combining STM and STS data on a local scale, as well as data from STM measurements, and sample area-averaging spectroscopic techniques, such as XPS and NEXAFS, to derive as complete a picture as possible of the investigated system. 

In the investigations of molecular adsorption reported here our philosophy has been to first determine the orientation of the adsorbed molecule or molecular fragment using NEXAFS and/or photoelectron diffraction. Using photoemission selection rules we then assign the observed spectral features in the photoelectron spectrum. On the basis of Koopmans theorem a comparison with a quantum chemical cluster calculation is then possible, should this be available. All three types of measurement can be performed with the same angle-resolving photoelectron spectrometer, but on different monochromators. In the next Section we briefly discuss the techniques. The third Section is devoted to three examples of the combined application of NEXAFS and photoemission, whereby the first - C0/Ni(100) - is chosen mainly for didactic reasons. The results for the systems CN/Pd(111) and HCOO/Cu(110) show, however, the power of this approach in situations where no a priori predictions of structure are possible. 

Nd YAG Q-switched laser, in fine art examination/ conservation, 11 413 N-donating ligands, complexation with uranium, 25 434-436 Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS), 24 72... 

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