d-d Excitations in Transition-Metal Oxides A Spin-Polarized Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy (SPEELS) Study /

• Main Author: Fromme, Bärbel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 170
• Subjects: Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Condensed matter.; Physical chemistry.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Physical Chemistry.
• Physical Description: X, 147 p. 20 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540453420
• ISSN: 0081-3869 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45342-3

In this monograph, investigations of the electronic structures of the transition-metal oxides MnO, CoO, and NiO with spin-polarized electron energy-loss spectroscopy are presented and compared with other experimental and theoretical results. After a review of the present knowledge of the electronic structure of the monoxides, the spectroscopic method applied and its special advantages are described. The knowledge and use of the different spin, angle, and primary-energy dependences of the various relevant inelastic electron-scattering mechanisms provide new insights into the excitation processes of the optically forbidden transitions between the crystal-field-split 3d states of the bulk and of the surface.