Angle-resolved soft X-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy of hexagonal boron nitride

Muramatsu, Yasuji; Kaneyoshi, Takahiro*; Gullikson, E. M.*; Perera, R. C. C.*

Spectrochimica Acta, Part A, 59(9), p.1951 - 1957, 2003/07

Angle-resolved soft X-ray emission and absorption spectra in the BK and NK regions of hexagonal BN were measured using polarized synchrotron radiation. The take-off/incident-angle-dependence on the spectral features in both X-ray emission and absorption is clearly observed. The configuration of the s and p orbitals, which were calculated using discrete variaional (DV) -Xa molecular orbital calculations, explains the angle-resolved soft X-ray emission and absorption spectra. The relative peak intensity of the 394-eV peak in the NK X-ray emission provides useful information about the BN layer ordering.