An X-Ray Investigation of Transition Metal Phosphides.

Theoretical studies of the first-row transition metal phosphides

Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Transition Metal Compounds

Inelastic X-ray scattering spectroscopies form a versatile family of experimental techniques that are capable of probing the ground state properties as well as the single-particle and collective excitations of condensed-matter systems. Electronic excitations are of fundamental importance in determining the optical and transport properties of solids and also take part in the screening of the Cou...

X-ray resonant exchange scattering from 3d transition metal surfaces

The decay of the elastic X-ray intensity peak versus perpendicular transferred momentum is theoretically studied at energies close to the LII edge, for single crystal Fe surfaces and thin Fe films. For the single crystal surface, large intensity changes are observed upon reversal of the direction of the magnetisation. For thin Fe films, which are known to exhibit perpendicular magnetisation, an...

Transition radiation in metal-metal multilayer nanostructures as a medical source of hard x-ray radiation

We show that a periodic metal-metal multilayer nanostructure can serve as an efficient source of hard x-ray transition radiation. Our research effort is aimed at developing an x-ray source for medical applications, which is based on using low-energy relativistic electrons. The approach toward choosing radiator-spacer couples for the generation of hard x-ray resonant transition radiation by few-...

Catalytic Activities of Transition Metal Phosphides for NO Dissociation and Reduction With CO

Transition metal phosphides are a group of compounds with interesting chemical/physical properties and potential applications in various fields, such as electronics, magnetism, photonics, catalysis, and so on1–4. In particular, metal phosphides (e.g. MoP, Ni2P, WP, Fe2P and Co2P) have been used as catalysts and extensively studied for hydrotreating reactions5–8. Among these phosphides, MoP, Ni2...