Scanning photoemission microscop

Figure 7. Soft X-ray microscopes, (a) conventional X-ray microscope (XM) (b) scanning transmission X-ray microscope (STXM) (c) Scanning Photoemission Microscope (SPEM) and (d) Photoemission Electron Microscope ( ), (taken from www.aLs.lbl.gov).

The measurement of tunnelling spectra in a scanning tunnelling microscope offers the potential of measuring the local density of states at spatially defined sites whose topography can be established at an atomic scale by STM. This information is only available however at the price of losing the information about the k-dependence of electronic states that is available in photoemission and inverse photoemission. In particular STS offers the prospect of measuring local densities of states at defect sites whose real space atomic structure can be established by STM. 

Thanks to the extensive literature on Aujj and the related smaller gold cluster compounds, plus some new results and reanalysis of older results to be presented here, it is now possible to paint a fairly consistent physical picture of the AU55 cluster system. To this end, the results of several microscopic techniques, such as Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS) [39,40,41], Mossbauer Effect Spectroscopy (MES) [24, 25, 42,43,44,45,46], Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) [35, 36], Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS and UPS) [47,48,49], nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) [29, 50, 51], and electron spin resonance (ESR) [17, 52, 53, 54] will be combined with the results of several macroscopic techniques, such as Specific Heat (Cv) [25, 54, 55, 56,49], Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) [57], Thermo-gravimetric Analysis (TGA) [58], UV-visible absorption spectroscopy [40, 57,17, 59, 60], AC and DC Electrical Conductivity [29,61,62, 63,30] and Magnetic Susceptibility [64, 53]. This is the first metal cluster system that has been subjected to such a comprehensive examination. 

In this section, we will present and discuss results from Sc2 C84, which is the most widely studied dimetallofullerene to date. Early scanning tunnelling microscopy [26] and transmission electron microscopic [27] investigations provided evidence in favour of the endohedral structure of this system, which was later confirmed by x-ray diffraction experiments utilising maximum entropy methods [28]. Before experimental data from this system were available, the Sc ions were predicted to be divalent from quantum chemical calculations [29]. Subsequent data from vibrational spectroscopy [30,31], core-level photoemission [32] and further theory [33] on this system were indeed interpreted in terms of divalent Sc ions. 

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