Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

Over the last three decades low-dimensional systems have attracted increasing interest both
from the fundamental and technological points of view due to their unique physical and …

X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) is a powerful and versatile technique for
studying structures of materials in chemistry, physics, biology and other fields. This textbook …

There is significant interest in develo** efficient electrochemical processes for commodity
chemical manufacturing, all directly powered by renewable electricity. A vital chemical is …

In this work, a structural analysis of Ge layers deposited by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
on Ag (1 1 1) surfaces with and without an AlN buffer layer have been investigated by x-ray …

In the last couple of decades, high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices based
on semiconductor heterostructures have been required to obtain increasingly strict and well …

In this in situ EXAFS and XANES study on the Phillips ethylene-polymerization Cr/SiO2
catalyst, two polymerization routes are investigated and compared. The first mimics that …

Everybody dreams to have X-ray eyes and discover the most invisible secrets of the world
around us. X-rays can probe matter (depth resolved) down to atomic resolution, if relying on …

Cu-alkali ion exchange in silicate glasses gives rise to a peculiar copper distribution, with
the presence of both the Cu 2+ and Cu+ oxidation states. Grazing incidence X-ray …

A mechanism for the development of nanocoatings for the tiles industry by using copper
nanoparticles has been proposed. A standard processing procedure in which ceramics were …