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Area of Science:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics
  • Materials Science
  • X-ray Physics

Background:

  • Traditional X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) often requires large, centralized facilities.
  • Novel compact X-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering (ICS) offer brilliant hard X-rays.
  • ICS sources provide collimated, intense beams with tunable energies suitable for spectroscopy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the first proof-of-principle XAS experiment using an ICS X-ray source.
  • To adapt XAS techniques for the unique properties of ICS beams.
  • To assess the feasibility of laboratory-based hard X-ray absorption spectroscopy.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an ICS X-ray source with a flux of >10^10 photons/s and <5% bandwidth.
  • Performed X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements.
  • Developed an energy-dispersive geometry and a fast concentration correction method for sample inhomogeneities.

Main Results:

  • Successfully measured silver K-edge (~25.5 keV) XAS spectra for various silver samples.
  • Achieved high energy resolution in XAS spectra with exposure times as short as one minute.
  • Demonstrated effective correction for sample inhomogeneities using the developed method.

Conclusions:

  • Inverse Compton scattering sources are highly beneficial for laboratory-based XAS, particularly in the hard X-ray regime.
  • This approach enables probing absorption edges of high Z materials outside of large facilities.
  • The developed methodology significantly enhances the applicability of XAS for materials analysis.