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12 - Inner-shell excitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Yutaka Toyozawa
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University of Tokyo
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Inner-shell electrons and synchrotron radiation

We have so far been concerned with the electrons in the outermost shell of atoms which play the main roles in the formation of interatomic bonds resulting in the aggregation of atoms into molecules or condensed matter. Material properties sensitive to external perturbations are governed by these electrons.

In contrast to these valence electrons (in insulators) and conduction electrons (in metals and semiconductors), the inner-shell electrons (also called core electrons) with which we shall be concerned in this chapter are more tightly bound around each nucleus and can be assumed to a good approximation to be localized within a particular atom. They are much less influenced by other atoms except through the chemical shift due to surrounding atoms or ions which is more or less common to all inner shells of the same atom (such as the Madelung potential). The inner-shell electrons have been left out of the main stream of molecular and condensed matter spectroscopy, simply because of the rather limited light sources in the regions of energy (vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) to X-ray) needed for the excitation of such deep-lying electrons.

The situation changed completely when synchrotron radiation (SR) became accessible to spectroscopic and structural researchers. It is a sort of Bremsstrahlung, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by electrons with high velocities in the relativistic regime which are constantly subjected to transverse acceleration (due to the Lorentz force generated by the bending magnets) on their circular orbit in the synchrotron.

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Print publication year: 2003

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  • Inner-shell excitation
  • Yutaka Toyozawa, University of Tokyo
  • Book: Optical Processes in Solids
  • Online publication: 10 December 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615085.013
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  • Yutaka Toyozawa, University of Tokyo
  • Book: Optical Processes in Solids
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615085.013
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  • Inner-shell excitation
  • Yutaka Toyozawa, University of Tokyo
  • Book: Optical Processes in Solids
  • Online publication: 10 December 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615085.013
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