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Li K-edge spectra of lithium halides
1Division of Electronics and Applied Physics, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Neyagawa, Japan.
Abstract:
We measured the Li K-edge spectra of lithium halides by means of total electron yield method (TEY), using the soft x-ray Beam Line 2 (BL2) of the compact synchrotron radiation facility at Ritsmeikan University in Japan. In lithium halides, the spectra have a sharp peak at about 60eV and a broad peak at the higher energy side. Various peak structures that appear in the absorption spectra are assigned to the corresponding Li-1s to valence band free orbitals transitions, which have been calculated by the Discrete Variational (DV)-Xalpha molecular orbital calculation method.
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