In honour of Professor John Brown's 65 th birthday festschrift __________________________________________ Using tunable vacuum-UV radiation from a synchrotron, the threshold photoelectron spectrum, threshold photoelectron photoion coincidence spectrum and ion breakdown diagram of the 1,1, cis-1,2 and trans-1,2 isomers of C 2 H 2 Cl 2 have been recorded in the range 9−23 eV. The energies of the peaks in the threshold photoelectron spectrum are in good agreement with outer-valence Greens function caculations. The major difference between the isomers, both predicted and observed experimentally is that the F and G states of
A new mobile end-station is described for use on multiple beamlines at the Daresbury synchrotron radiation source (overall excitation range 5 eV to 70 keV) that allows for the detection and dispersion of photoluminescence from solid-state samples in the emission range 190-1000 nm (1.2-6.5 eV). The system is fully self-contained and includes sample-cooling facilities for the temperature range 8-330 K using a closed-cycle refrigerator, thus eliminating the need for liquid cryogens. The system also includes solid-state laser sources for use with a variety of pump-probe-type experiments, and an Ar(+) surface-cleaning facility. In order to demonstrate the various capabilities of the system, the results of a variety of experiments are summarized, carried out over the excitation range 5-5000 eV on beamlines 3.2, MPW6.1 and 4.2. These include the optical detection of XAS of L-edge structure in natural minerals and archaeological ceramics, band-gap determinations of wide-band-gap silicates, and pump-probe studies of quartz.
The first comprehensive survey of band-edge features in the ternary group of naturally occurring aluminosilicates (the feldspars) is presented. Synchrotron-based luminescence excitation of KAlSi 3 O 8 , NaAlSi 3 O 8 and CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 allows the measurement of the evolution of the band-gap across the system, which, at 8 K, is found to vary from 7.86 eV in NaAlSi 3 O 8 to 7.7 eV and 7.62 eV in KAlSi 3 O 8 and CaAl 2 Si 2 O 8 , respectively: the band-gap energies are typically 0.1 eV smaller at 300 K. In comparison with measurements made on natural and synthetic hydrothermal α-quartz, where both the direct and indirect band-gap structures are distinctly observable, no significant post-edge band structure is discernable in the feldspars. In Ca-rich material, the luminescence is attenuated by more than two orders of magnitude for excitation energies up to 3 eV above the band-gap, partly supporting the proposition (derived from previous cyclotron resonance experiments) that the bands are simply parabolic and that the materials may be direct band-gap insulators. The luminescence excitation experiments also allow an initial survey to be made of sub-band-gap features in the materials, including low mobility, temperature sensitive band-tail states and mid-gap defects.
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