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X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

Fundamentals and Applications

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  • Features descriptions of synchrotron sources in language accessible to chemists and biologists
  • Contains up-to-date information about EXAFS
  • Covers emerging techniques such as XMCD, RIXS, IXS, and NRVS
  • Includes Mathematica notebooks as downloadable material

Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Introduction and Historical Background

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 1-10
  3. The Storage Ring Complex

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 11-37
  4. Synchrotron Radiation Fundamentals

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 39-68
  5. X-ray Optics and Synchrotron Beamlines

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 69-105
  6. X-ray Detectors and Electronics

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 107-130
  7. X-ray Absorption and EXAFS

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 131-164
  8. XANES and XMCD

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 165-190
  9. Photon-in Photon-out Spectroscopy

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 191-226
  10. Nuclear Hyperfine Techniques

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 227-256
  11. Nuclear Resonaynce Vibrational Spectroscopy

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 257-278
  12. Photon-in Electron-out Spectroscopies

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 279-294
  13. Free-Electron Lasers

    • Stephen P. Cramer
    Pages 295-310
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 311-388

About this book

Synchrotron radiation has been a revolutionary and invaluable research tool for a wide range of scientists, including chemists, biologists, physicists, materials scientists, geophysicists. It has also found multidisciplinary applications with problems ranging from archeology through cultural heritage to paleontology. 

 

The subject of this book is x-ray spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation, and the target audience is both current and potential users of synchrotron facilities.  The first half of the book introduces readers to the fundamentals of storage ring operations, the qualities of the synchrotron radiation produced, the x-ray optics required to transport this radiation, and the detectors used for measurements.  The second half of the book describes the important spectroscopic techniques that use synchrotron x-rays, including chapters on x-ray absorption, x-ray fluorescence, resonant and non-resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, nuclear spectroscopies, and x-ray photoemission.  A final chapter surveys the exciting developments of free electron laser sources, which promise a second revolution in x-ray science.

 

Thanks to the detailed descriptions in the book, prospective users will be able to quickly begin working with these techniques.  Experienced users will find useful summaries, key equations, and exhaustive references to key papers in the field, as well as outlines of the historical developments in the field.  Along with plentiful illustrations, this work includes access to supplemental Mathematica notebooks, which can be used for some of the more complex calculations and as a teaching aid.  This book should appeal to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior scientists alike.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Advanced Light Source Professor emeritus, University of California, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA, Davis, USA

    Stephen P. Cramer

About the author

Stephen P. Cramer is a chemist with over 45 years’ experience in the field of synchrotron radiation.  He is Advanced Light Source Professor Emeritus at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  He is now a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin.

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eBook USD 129.00
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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