Sulfur electronic environments in αNiS and β-NiS: Examination of the relationship between coordination number and core electron binding energies

Physics and Chemistry of Minerals

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 98-105

  Goh, Siew Wei ^a   Buckley, Alan N ^a   Lamb, Robert N ^a   Skinner, William M ^b   Pring, Allan ^c   Wang, Haipeng ^c   Fan, Liang Jen ^d   Jang, Ling Yun ^d   Lai, Lee Jene ^d   Yang, Yaw Wen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

NiS; Millerite; NEXAFS; XPS

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; SULFUR; SURFACES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CORE ELECTRON; ELECTRON BINDING ENERGIES; NEAR-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE (NEXAFS);

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

LATTICE DYNAMICS; MINERALOGY; SULFUR;

EID: 33645513842     PISSN: 03421791     EISSN: 14322021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00269-006-0058-1     Document Type: Article

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