Synchrotron Radiation Sources and Applications to the Structural and Electronic Properties of Materials

Learn about the properties of synchrotron radiation and its wide range of applications in physics, materials science and chemistry with this invaluable reference. This thorough text describes the physical principles of the subject, its source and methods of delivery to the sample, as well as the different techniques that use synchrotron radiation to analyse the electronic properties and structure of crystalline and non-crystalline materials and surfaces. Explains applications to study the structure and electronic properties of materials on a microscopic, nanoscopic and atomic scale. An excellent resource for current and future users of these facilities, showing how the available techniques can complement information obtained in users' home laboratories. Perfect for graduate and senior undergraduate students taking specialist courses in synchrotron radiation, in addition to new and established researchers in the field.

1. Introduction; 2. Synchrotron radiation sources; 3. Getting the light to the sample; 4. Crystalline structural techniques; 5. Local structural techniques; 6. Probes of electronic structure; 7. Probes of vibrational structure; 8. Imaging and micro/nano-analysis.

D. Phil Woodruff is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Warwick University. He has been awarded a number of prizes for this work in the UK, USA and Germany and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His previous works include Modern Techniques of Surface Science, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2016).