Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy of liquids and solutions

JW Smith, RJ Saykally - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an electronic absorption technique for which the
initial state is a deeply buried core level. The photon energies corresponding to such …

Atomic-resolution imaging of oxidation states in manganites

M Varela, MP Oxley, W Luo, J Tao, M Watanabe… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Aberration corrected electron optics allows routine acquisition of high spatial resolution
spectroscopic images in the scanning transmission electron microscope, which is important …

Spectroscopic imaging of single atoms within a bulk solid

M Varela, SD Findlay, AR Lupini, HM Christen… - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
The ability to localize, identify, and measure the electronic environment of individual atoms
will provide fundamental insights into many issues in materials science, physics, and …

Direct visualization of localized vibrations at complex grain boundaries

ER Hoglund, DL Bao, A O'Hara, TW Pfeifer… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Grain boundaries (GBs) are a prolific microstructural feature that dominates the functionality
of a wide class of materials. The functionality at a GB results from the unique atomic …

Calibrating transition-metal energy levels and oxygen bands in first-principles calculations: Accurate prediction of redox potentials and charge transfer in lithium …

DH Seo, A Urban, G Ceder - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Transition-metal (TM) oxides play an increasingly important role in technology today,
including applications such as catalysis, solar energy harvesting, and energy storage. In …

Soft x-ray excitonics

A Moulet, JB Bertrand, T Klostermann, A Guggenmos… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The dynamic response of excitons in solids is central to modern condensed-phase physics,
material sciences, and photonic technologies. However, study and control have hitherto …

Core level excitation, ionization, relaxation, and fragmentation of free clusters

E Rühl - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2003 - Elsevier
Recent progress in the field of core level excitation of free clusters is reviewed, where size
effects of the electronic and geometric structure in variable size clusters are investigated by …

Transition layers at the SiO2∕ SiC interface

T Zheleva, A Lelis, G Duscher, F Liu, I Levin… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The electrical performance of SiC-based microelectronic devices is strongly affected by the
densities of interfacial traps introduced by the chemical and structural changes at the Si O …

Calculation of near-edge x-ray-absorption fine structure at finite temperatures: Spectral signatures of hydrogen bond breaking in liquid water

B Hetényi, F De Angelis, P Giannozzi… - The Journal of chemical …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We calculate the near-edge x-ray-absorption fine structure of H 2 O in the gas, hexagonal
ice, and liquid phases using heuristic density-functional based methods. We present a …

Structure determination through Z-contrast microscopy

SJ Pennycook - Advances in imaging and electron physics, 2002 - Elsevier
This review outlined the quantum mechanical basis for regarding Z-contrast imaging and
EELS in the STEM as directly interpretable, column-by-column imaging and analysis. These …