Resistive switching in metal oxides is believed to be caused by a temperature and electric field driven redistribution of oxygen vacancies within nanometer sized conductive filament. Accordingly, gaining detailed information about the chemical composition filaments key importance for comprehensive understanding process. In this work, spectromicroscopy used probe electronic structure Ta2O5-based...

The effort to apply synchrotron spectromicroscopy techA photon absorbed by a system can transfer its energy to one of niques to life science problems is definitely beyond the feasibility-test its electrons, enabling it to overcome the binding energy barrier stage. Furthermore, the commissioning of ultrabright, third-generation and to be ejected, becoming a ‘‘photoelectron.’’ soft–X-ray sources ...

We review some recent work carried out in the area of Photoelectron Spectromicroscopy for both laboratory and synchrotron based instruments. This allows assessment of the technique’s capability for dealing with real world applications. In particular, a comparison of achieved performance is made with commercial laboratory equipment to illustrate the strength of the technique. Examples of applica...