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.

Characterization of Bioinorganic Systems
Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Nuclear Resonance Vibrational Spectroscopy
Nuclear Spectroscopy
Synchrotron Radiation Fundamentals
Synchrotron Radiation in Bioorganic Chemistry
X-ray Absorption
X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
Biological Microscopy

• Front Matter
• Introduction and Historical Background
• The Storage Ring Complex
• Synchrotron Radiation Fundamentals
• X-ray Optics and Synchrotron Beamlines
• X-ray Detectors and Electronics
• X-ray Absorption and EXAFS
• XANES and XMCD
• Photon-in Photon-out Spectroscopy
• Nuclear Hyperfine Techniques
• Nuclear Resonaynce Vibrational Spectroscopy
• Photon-in Electron-out Spectroscopies
• Free-Electron Lasers
• Back Matter

Advanced Light Source Professor emeritus, University of California, Senior Research Scientist, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA, Davis, USA
Stephen P. Cramer

Book Title
X-Ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation

Book Subtitle
Fundamentals and Applications

Series Title
Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28551-7

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-030-28549-4
Published: 20 November 2020

eBook ISBN
978-3-030-28551-7
Published: 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