Hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy on the trilayer system MgO/Au/Fe using standing-wave excitation

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 46, Issue 37, 2013, Pages

  Doring S ^a,b   Schonbohm F ^b   Berges, U ^b   Burgler D E ^c   Schneider, C M ^a,c   Gorgoi, M ^d   Schafers F ^d   Westphal, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STATE; HARD X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION; HARD X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL LAYER; SHARP INTERFACE; STANDING WAVE; TRI LAYERS; XPS SPECTRA;

EXPERIMENTS; GOLD; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84884539065     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/46/37/375001     Document Type: Article

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