QUADRUPOLAR CHARACTER OF THE Ti K-EDGE PREPEAKS IN TiO2 BY RESONANT AUGER

Resonant spectroscopies offer a new opportunity to get more insight into excited electronic states by studying line shapes and intensities of decay processes. For photon excitations in the pre-K-edge region, the Ti KL 2,3 L 2,3 Auger spectra in TiO 2 show additional peaks when an electron is promoted in localized d-like states via a quadrupolar transition. This resonant process is used to unravel the respective contributions of quadrupolar and dipolar transitions to the absorption edge prepeaks.