Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy applications, solid surfaces

The third problem also concerns the choice of whether to leave out certain material. In a book of this size it is not possible to cover all branches of spectroscopy. Such decisions are difficult ones but I have chosen not to include spin resonance spectroscopy (NMR and ESR), nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy (NQR), and Mossbauer spectroscopy. The exclusion of these areas, which have been well covered in other texts, has been caused, I suppose, by the inclusion, in Chapter 8, of photoelectron spectroscopy (ultraviolet and X-ray), Auger electron spectroscopy, and extended X-ray absorption fine structure, including applications to studies of solid surfaces, and, in Chapter 9, the theory and some examples of lasers and some of their uses in spectroscopy. Most of the material in these two chapters will not be found in comparable texts but is of very great importance in spectroscopy today. 

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