This Review highlights basic and transition metal conducting and semiconducting oxides.
We discuss their material and electronic properties with an emphasis on the crystal …

Owing to their unique physical and chemical properties, transition metal compounds,
especially transition metal oxides, nitrides, carbides and sulfides, have been the subject of …

ZnO is a II–VI semiconductor with a band gap energy (Eg) of 3.37 eV at room temperature. It
is a potential competitor of GaN and SiC for ultraviolet and blue light-emitter and detector …

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are massively produced and widely used in daily life, which
has posed potential risk to human health. However, the molecular mechanism of TiO 2 …

The reliability of the structural parameters obtained from x-ray-absorption fine-structure
(XAFS) spectra strongly depends on the quality of the standards used in the data analyses …

The large unit cells, the enormous flexibility and variation in structural motifs of MOFs
represent a big challenge in the characterization of MOF materials, particularly in cases …

The sensitivity of extended x-ray-absorption fine structure (EXAFS) to thermal expansion has
been studied by temperature-dependent measurements on germanium. The first cumulant …

The analysis of temperature-dependent EXAFS spectra based on the cumulant expansion is
critically reviewed, seeking for accurate relations between EXAFS parameters and physical …

The first four cumulants of a radial distribution function of diatomic molecules and the first
three cumulants for linear triatomic systems have been derived quantum statistically. These …

Extended x-ray-absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) of copper has been measured from 4 to
500 K and analyzed by the cumulant method, to check the effectiveness of EXAFS as a …