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Innovative Measurement Techniques in Surface Science
Author(s) -
Freund HansJoachim,
Nilius Niklas,
Risse Thomas,
Schauermann Swetlana,
Schmidt Thomas
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201000812
Subject(s) - scanning tunneling microscope , nanotechnology , isothermal microcalorimetry , nanoscopic scale , microscopy , spectroscopy , x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , materials science , chemistry , physics , optics , nuclear magnetic resonance , quantum mechanics , enthalpy
We describe four new experimental techniques advanced during the last decade in the authors’ laboratory. The techniques include photon scanning tunneling microscopy; aberration‐corrected low‐energy electron microscopy in combination with photoelectron emission microscopy, microcalorimetry, and electron‐spin resonance spectroscopy. It is demonstrated how those techniques may be applied to solve fundamental problems in surface science with growing demands to tackle complex nanoscopic systems, and, in particular in catalysis science, which, without the availability of those techniques, would be difficult if not impossible to address.