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Synchrotron-radiation angle-resolved and core-level photoemission spectroscopy are used together to investigate the origin of the two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of single crystal CdO (100) films. A reduction in the…
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Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) is a scattering technique which allows one to characterize the structure of fluid interfaces down to the molecular scale, including the measurement of the surface tension and of the interface…
Unprecedented bright and intense synchrotron X-rays have been widely used to unravel numerous compelling electronic and structural properties using a large variety of physical techniques, while the puzzling phenomenon is the uncertainties…
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X-ray reflectivity studies reveal atomic-level surface-segregation at the free surface of the eutectic Au71Sn29 liquid alloy. The surface-segregation extends up to three layers, in which the top layer is almost a pure monolayer of Sn, the…