Overview
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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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
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and Applications
Authors: Stephen P. Cramer
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28551-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28549-4Published: 20 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28551-7Published: 19 November 2020
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 388
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 218 illustrations in colour
Topics: Spectroscopy/Spectrometry, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Biological Microscopy, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Medical and Radiation Physics