New Trends in Hard X-rays

Dear Colleagues,

Quantum Beam Science (QuBS) is pleased to announce a Special Issue on new trends in the field of hard X-ray analysis and invites original and review papers that feature cutting-edge research in analysis using hard X-rays. It has become possible to utilize hard X-rays with strong intensity for research with the emergence of third-generation synchrotron radiation facilities. Hard X-rays enable us to analyze atomic structures, electronic structures, and chemical states, among other aspects, in not only various kinds of solid states but gas and liquid phases owing to the high-incident energies. For instance, photoelectron spectroscopy employing hard X-rays—HAXPES—is a powerful and unique technique to investigate the electronic states in a surface insensitive manner. This method has been well-established accompanying an advance in sources of light, apparatuses for measurements, and spectroscopic techniques for the last few decades, and horizons have been broadened in the world of spectroscopy for varieties of materials. Meanwhile, atomic imaging in real space using hard X-rays has become common today. In addition to typical microscopic methods, X-ray holography, tomography, and ptychography have been developed and applied to obtain fully three-dimensional information about the local atomic structure and/or chemical distribution. Moreover, optics for hard X-rays and sources of hard X-rays also have been advanced strikingly. This progress in hard X-ray analysis yields useful products in an industrial application, as well as basic quantum beam science. Thus, it is the opportunity of a lifetime to collect and organize fruitful research topics on hard X-rays analysis now.

This Special Issue will include the following subject matter for which we welcome contributions:

• Progress and trends in hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES)
• Progress and trends in X-ray diffraction
• Progress and trends in extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS)
• Progress and trends in hard X-ray microscopy
• Progress and trends in hard X-ray holography, tomography, and ptychography
• Progress and trends in hard X-ray optics
• Progress and trends in hard X-ray generator and emission

With these aspects in mind, this Special Issue on new trends in hard X-ray analysis will provide a remarkable insight into the current state-of-art studies in this research field and a valuable prospect in the future.

Prof. Dr. Masaki Mizuguchi
Guest Editor

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