Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Cobalt Materials

Abstract

Throughout the PhD work, I have focused on synchrotron-based 2p X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) to study several cobalt containing materials. 2p3d RIXS that shows high sensitivity to the partially filled 3d orbitals of transition metal ions within different types of materials, which yields unique chemical information. The ligand field multiplet (LFM) approach is used for the theoretical interpretation of the experimental spectra.