0000000000282012
AUTHOR
François Baudelet
Tuning the Kondo resonance in two-dimensional lattices of cerium molecular complexes
International audience; Cerium intermetallics have raised a lot of interest for the past forty years thanks to their very unusual and interesting electronic and magnetic properties. This can be explained by the peculiar electronic configuration of Ce (4f1) that allows different oxidation states leading to singular behavior such as quantum phase transitions, heavy-fermion behavior and the Kondo effect. In this work, we used a mixed-valence molecular analogue to study the Kondo effect down to the atomic scale by means of scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) for which new many-body effects are expected to emerge due to reduced dimensionality and specific chemical environment of…
Origin of Pressure-Induced Metallization in Cu 3 N: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study
The authors are grateful to Professor Alain Polian for providing the NDAC cell.
Recent progress in high pressure X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies at the ODE beamline
I.J. and A.K. are grateful to the Latvian Council of Science project no. lzp-2018/2-0353 for financial support. The research leading to these results has been partially supported by the project CALIPSOplus under the Grant Agreement No. 730872 from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020.
Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in α-SnWO4
In-situ high-pressure W L1 and L3 edges x-ray absorption and mid-infrared spectroscopies complemented by first-principles calculations suggest the existence of pressure- induced insulator-to-metal transition in α-SnWO4 in the range of 5-7 GPa. Its origin is explained by a symmetrization of metal-oxygen octahedra due to a strong interaction of Sn 5s, W 5d and O 2p states along the b-axis direction, leading to a collapse of the band gap.
DETECTION LIMITS FOR NATURAL CIRCULAR-DICHROISM OF CHIRAL COMPLEXES IN THE X-RAY RANGE
Whereas both Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Faraday Rotation studies have been successfully carried out at the K-, L- and M-absorption edges of metal atoms in ferromagnetic systems, Natural optical activity of chiral complexes has not yet been detected quite unambiguously in the X-ray range. We review a number of theoretical arguments which confirm that the optical asymmetry factor gσ should be very small in the X-ray range for unoriented powdered samples, especially at the K-absorption edges. This stimulating challenge prompted us to start an intensive programme of measurements aimed at detecting natural circular dichroism in both the soft and “firm” X-ray ranges. Although some of our ex…
High-pressure x-ray absorption spectroscopy study of tin tungstates
Room-temperature pressure-dependent (0-25 GPa) x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the W -edges of α-SnWO4 and β-SnWO4 was performed using a dispersive setup and a high-pressure nanodiamond anvil cell. The detailed analysis of experimental x-ray absorption near-edge structure and extended x-ray absorption fine structure data suggests that upon increasing pressure, a displacement of tungsten atoms by about 0.2 A toward the center of the WO6 octahedra occurs in α-SnWO4, whereas the coordination of tungsten atoms changes from tetrahedral to distorted octahedral in β-SnWO4.
Influence of Pressure and Temperature on X-Ray Induced Photoreduction of Nanocrystalline CuO
The authors are grateful to Prof. Alain Polian for providing NDAC cell. Parts of the present research have been carried out at the ODE beamline at SOLEIL.
Structural evolution of theCuGaO2delafossite under high pressure
We have performed pseudopotential calculations and x-ray-diffraction and x-ray-absorption measurements on the ${\mathrm{CuGaO}}_{2}$ delafossite under high pressure. We have completely characterized the structural behavior of the low pressure phase. We have found out that the a axis is more compressible than the c axis, and as a consequence the oxygen octahedra defined by the gallium environment tend to become more regular under high pressure. We have determined the internal parameter describing the oxygen position inside the unit cell, and seen that it is nearly constant when pressure is applied. We have observed an irreversible phase transition affecting the copper environment but not the…
Pressure-induced structural changes in α-MoO3 probed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
The authors are grateful to Prof. Alain Polian for providing NDAC cell. The research leading to this result has been supported by the project CALIPSOplus under the Grant Agreement 730872 from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020. The work was supported by philanthropist MikroTik and administrated by the University of Latvia Foundation.
EXAFS Study of PressureInduced Phase Transition in SrWO4
Pressure-induced scheelite-to-wolframite structural phase transition in SrWO4 was studied using two complementary techniques—x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction (XRD). In situ XRD and W L3-edge EXAFS measurements were performed using the synchrotron radiation. The experiments were done at room temperature in the pressure range from 0 to 30 GPa using the diamond anvil cell. The XRD results unambiguously show that SrWO4 transforms from the tetragonal scheelite phase to the monoclinic wolframite-type phase at about 11.7 GPa. Locally this transition appears as a change of the tungsten ions coordination from regular tetrahedral to distorted octahedral. The analysis of the EXAFS d…