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EXAFS data (Rh K-edge ((23220 eV) or Ir Lm-edge (13419 eV)) were collected in transmission mode on station 9.2 of the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source, operating at 2 GeV with an average current of 150 mA. A water-cooled Si(220) double crystal monochromator was used, with its angle calibrated by running an edge scan of a 5 pm Rh or Ir foil. For each sample 2-10 scans were recorded at room temperature in the... 

The traditional operation mode of synchrotron light sources is a discontinuous one particles are injected in the storage ring, the beam current is decaying exponentially, and after several hours the synchrotron radiation run is stopped for a new injection. 

The X-ray K- spectra Mn, Lj -spectra of rare earths (Nd, Sm and Eu), Lj -spectra Ba were obtained using synchrotron radiation of EXAFS-station of Budker Institute of Nuclear physics of SB RAN (Novosibirsk). The typical operating conditions of the storage ring were as follows electron beam energy E=2 GeV, current 1=100mA. 

The experiments described in this review were performed at the Synchrotron Radiation source (SRS) at the SERC Daresbury Laboratory. The operating conditions were typically 2GeV electron energy and 200 mA beam current. 

The development of synchrotron radiation can be conveniently followed in terms of generations. Each generation witnessed some distinct progress in synchrotron technology and usage. Table 2 summarizes the sources that are currently in operation around the world. 

He then spent three years as a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at AT T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, where he conducted research of the structure, kinetics, and phase transitions of surfaces and interfaces, using X-ray diffraction. He is currently as Senior Research Scientist in the James Franck Institute and Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS) at the University of Chicago. He has been involved in synchrotron radiation research since 1986 and during the past seven years has been involved in the design, construction and operation of the GeoSoilEnviroCARS (GSE)CARS laboratory at the Advanced Photon Source. Here he has applied lower dimensional X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption fine structure, X-ray fluorescence microprobe, microtomography and microcrystallography to study problems in earth and environmental science. 

To improve the mass transport in reactions involving high electric currents and the evolution of gas, a working electrode with small perforations can be employed [440]. Temperature-controlled SEC cells that operate between ambient and 57-70°C are described in Refs. [361, 441, 442], The sensitivity of this method in the far-IR region can be substantially increased by the use of synchrotron radiation [443]. 

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