Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy of anatase TiO2 nanoparticles using XFEL

Structural Dynamics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Obara, Yuki ^a   Ito, Hironori ^a   Ito, Terumasa ^a   Kurahashi, Naoya ^b   Thürmer, Stephan ^b   Tanaka, Hiroki ^a   Katayama, Tetsuo ^c   Togashi, Tadashi ^c   Owada, Shigeki ^d   Yamamoto, Yo Ichi ^b   Karashima, Shutaro ^b   Nishitani, Junichi ^b   Yabashi, Makina ^d   Suzuki, Toshinori ^b   Misawa, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER PULSES; NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ANATASE TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; CHARGE CARRIER DYNAMICS; CONDUCTION BAND ELECTRONS; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; PRE-EDGE FEATURES; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

TIO2 NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 85021695814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23297778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4989862     Document Type: Article

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