Usually a scientist considers of synchrotron light in terms of short-wavelength hard UV or X-ray radiation delivered in a beam of very small diameter. However, the same beam also provides intense and well-collimated radiation of much longer wavelength (~5-300 µm), in the far-infrared spectral region. At the Far-IR beamline of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron we conduct experiments on the...
Soft x-ray absorption and scattering at transition metal L2,3 edges has been an extremely prolific method for researchers over the past several decades. Our understanding of the multiplet-dominated lineshapes allows for detailed analyses of oxidation states and charge transfer effects, magnetism, and electronic effects of local site symmetry, for example. However, strongly covalent compounds...
