An overview of both experimental and theoretical results in the field of resonant scattering of
tunable soft and hard x-ray radiation is presented, with a main focus on the closely related …

Chelating agents are an integral part of transition metal complex chemistry with broad
biological and industrial relevance. The hexadentate chelating agent …

High-harmonic spectroscopy is an all-optical nonlinear technique with inherent attosecond
temporal resolution. It has been applied to a variety of systems in the gas phase and solid …

Hydration shells around ions are crucial for many fundamental biological and chemical
processes. Their local physicochemical properties are quite different from those of bulk …

The electronic structure of the fumarate, maleate, and succinate dianions in the context of
their stability is determined in a joint experimental and computational study with X-ray …

The occupied and unoccupied electronic structure of imidazole (C3N2H4) and imidazolium
(C3N2H5+) in aqueous solutions is studied by X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and …

We have implemented and successfully tested an off-axis transmission Fresnel zone plate
as spectral analyzer for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). The imaging capabilities …

High-harmonic spectroscopy (HHS) is a nonlinear all-optical technique with inherent
attosecond temporal resolution, which has been applied successfully to a broad variety of …

Understanding the molecular structure of the hydration shells and their impact on the
hydrogen bond (HB) network of water in aqueous salt solutions is a fundamentally important …

The design and first results of a high-transmission soft X-ray spectrometer operated at the X-
SPEC double-undulator beamline of the KIT Light Source are presented. As a unique …