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22 October 2022 Fine structure of the atomic scattering factors near the iridium L-edges
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Abstract

We measured the reflectivity of an Athena silicon pore optics sample coated with 10-nm thick iridium near the iridium L-edges (L3 , L2, and L1) in a step of 1.5 eV. The derived atomic scattering factor f2 was similar to a shape of the absorption coefficient μ near L3 and L2 obtained by previous x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements. The fine structures of f2 of L3 and L2 can be represented by a strong sharp line referred to as a white line (WL) and two weak lines at center energies of ∼17 and ∼31 eV from each edge energy. The branching ratio (L3 / L2) of the WL is >2, which reflects the initial core-electron states available for the L2 (2p1/2) and L3 (2p3/2) processes, and the ratio remains high to the energy of +7 . 5 eV from WL. The fine structure seen in L1 also has two weak lines, which were seen in XAS at L1-edge. Our measurements near L3, L2, and L1 edges demonstrated a different technique to provide atomic structural information as XAS. The ground calibration to measure fine structures near the edges may potentially be simplified using f2 estimated based on μ.

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Hisamitsu Awaki, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Marcos Bavdaz, Finn E. Christensen, Maximilien Collon, Desiree D. M. Ferreira, Kazunori Ishibashi, Sonny Massahi, Takuya Miyazawa, Sara Svendsen, and Keisuke Tamura "Fine structure of the atomic scattering factors near the iridium L-edges," Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 8(4), 044001 (22 October 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.4.044001
Received: 9 June 2022; Accepted: 26 September 2022; Published: 22 October 2022
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KEYWORDS
Iridium

Scattering

X-rays

Reflectivity

Absorption

Calibration

Luminescence

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