Synchrotron Radiation and Surface Science

Infrared Science with Synchrotron Radiation

Synchrotron radiation is best known as a source of X-rays, but it is also a source for VUV to soft-Xrays photons. However, it was realised in the early 90’s that this source can also be exploited in the infrared energy domain. Even if in some frequency regions (roughly 30 microns and below) the total photon flux emitted by the synchrotron source remains inferior to that of a thermal source, the...

SYMPOSIUM O Synchrotron radiation and materials science

Molecular Environmental Science Using Synchrotron Radiation:

Nuclear Resonant Surface Diffraction of Synchrotron Radiation.

Nuclear resonant x-ray diffraction in grazing incidence geometry is used to determine the lateral magnetic configuration in a one-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetic nanostripes. During magnetic reversal, strong nuclear superstructure diffraction peaks appear in addition to the electronic ones due to an antiferromagnetic order in the nanostripe lattice. We show that the analysis of the angular...

Synchrotron radiation techniques in materials and environmental science.

Synchrotron-based techniques have had, over the last 30 years, a major and profound effect on the study of complex materials and on environmental science. Their ability to obtain accurate information at the atomic and molecular level on both local and longrange structures, together with the increasing ability to undertake time-resolved structural studies, has transformed our understanding of se...