Journal
HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS
Volume 144, Issue 1, Pages 3-20Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025452401501
Keywords
synchrotron radiation; inelastic X-ray scattering; nuclear resonant scattering; speed-of-sound; Debye sound velocity
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Nuclear resonant inelastic X-ray scattering of synchrotron radiation is being applied to ever widening areas ranging from geophysics to biophysics and materials science. Since its first demonstration in 1995 using the Fe-57 resonance, the technique has now been applied to materials containing Kr-83, Eu-151, Sn-119, and Dy-161 isotopes. The energy resolution has been reduced to under a millielectronvolt. This, in turn, has enabled new types of measurements like Debye velocity of sound, as well as the study of origins of non-Debye behavior in presence of other low-energy excitations. The effect of atomic disorder on phonon density of states has been studied in detail. The flux increase due to the improved X-ray sources, crystal monochromators, and time-resolved detectors has been exploited for reducing sample sizes to nano-gram levels, or using samples with dilute resonant nuclei like myoglobin, or even monolayers. Incorporation of micro-focusing optics to the existing experimental setup enables experiments under high pressure using diamond-anvil cells. In this article, we will review these developments.
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