Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics with Synchrotron Radiation: Basic Principles, Methodology and Applications

✍ Scribed by Ralf Röhlsberger (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 208
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of nuclear condensed matter physics with synchrotron radiation, a technique which finds numerous applications in fields such as magnetism, physics of surfaces and interfaces, lattice dynamics and more. Due to the enormous brilliance of modern synchrotron radiation sources, the method is particularly suited for the investigation of low-dimensional structures such as thin films and nanoparticles. The use of isotopic probe layers, for example, allows one to determine magnetic and vibrational properties with very high spatial resolution; focusing techniques and x-ray interference effects lead to a very high sensitivity for smallest amounts of material. The book is written on an introductory level with many examples employed to illustrate the special experimental possibilities.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-6
General Aspects of Nuclear Resonant Scattering....Pages 7-36
Methods and Instrumentation....Pages 37-65
Coherent Elastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering....Pages 67-180
Inelastic Nuclear Resonant Scattering....Pages 181-231
Advanced Scattering Techniques....Pages 233-271
Outlook and Perspectives....Pages 273-282
Concluding Remarks....Pages 283-284
Appendix....Pages 285-312

✦ Subjects

Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics;Condensed Matter;Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials