, Y.
, O'Neil, G.
, Miaja, L.
, Fowler, J.
, Silverman, K.
, Swetz, D.
, Ullom, J.
and Jimenez, R.
(2015),
Observation of Iron Spin-States using Tabletop X-ray Emission Spectroscopy and Microcalorimeter Sensors, Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/49/2/024003
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Observation of Iron Spin-States using Tabletop X-ray Emission Spectroscopy and Microcalorimeter Sensors
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X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) is a powerful probe of the electronic and chemical state of elemental species embedded within more complex compounds. X-ray sensors that combine high resolving power and high collecting efficiency are desirable for photon-starved XES experiments such as measurements of dilute, gaseous, and radiation-sensitive samples, time-resolved measurements, and in-laboratory XES where the exciting x-ray fluxes available are much less intense than at large facilities. To assess whether arrays of cryogenic microcalorimeters will be useful in photon- starved XES scenarios, we demonstrate that these emerging energy-dispersive sensors can detect the spin-state of two different iron compounds, Fe2O3 and FeS2, from the perturbing effect of the local 3d magnetic moment on the Kα and Kβ x-ray transitions. The measurements were conducted using a picosecond pulsed laser-driven plasma as the exciting x-ray source. The use of this tabletop source suggests that time-resolved in-laboratory XES will be possible in the future. We also present simulations of Kα and Kβ spectra that reveal the spin-state sensitivity of different combinations of sensor resolution and accumulated counts. These simulations predict that use of the Kα complex is attractive, that our current experimental apparatus can perform time-resolved XES measurements on some samples on timescales of a few 10s of hours per time delay, and that anticipated improvements in source and detector technology will enable in-laboratory, time-resolved XES on a broad range of samples on timescales near an hour.Citation
Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
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49
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