Application of high-energy-resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the U L-edge to assess the U(V) electronic structure in FeUO

Yomogida, Takumi; Akiyama, Daisuke*; Ouchi, Kazuki; Kumagai, Yuta; Higashi, Kotaro*; Kitatsuji, Yoshihiro; Kirishima, Akira*; Kawamura, Naomi*; Takahashi, Yoshio*

Inorganic Chemistry, 61(50), p.20206 - 20210, 2022/12

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03208

FeUO was studied to clarify the electronic structure of U(V) in a metal monouranate compound. We obtained the peak splitting of HERFD-XANES spectra utilizing high-energy-resolution fluorescence detection-X-ray absorption near edge structure (HERFD-XANES) spectroscopy at the U L-edge, which is a novel technique in the U(V) compounds. Theoretical calculations revealed that the peak splitting was caused by splitting the 6d orbital of U(V). Such distinctive electronic states are of major interest to researchers and engineers working in various fields, from fundamental physics to the nuclear industry and environmental sciences for actinide elements.

Synchrotron radiation-based techniques available at JAEA advanced characterization nanotechnology platform (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

Yoneda, Yasuhiro; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Takeda, Yukiharu; Shiwaku, Hideaki; Matsumura, Daiju; Shobu, Takahisa; Tamura, Kazuhisa

Materia, 58(12), p.763 - 769, 2019/12

https://doi.org/10.2320/materia.58.763

This is an introduction to the equipment provided for each implementation period belonging to the structure analysis platform in the nanotechnology platform.

Observation of oriented organic semiconductor using Photo-Electron Emission Microscope (PEEM) with polarized synchrotron

Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro; Baba, Yuji; Hirao, Norie; Honda, Mitsunori; Izumi, Toshinori; Ikeura, Hiromi*

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 622(1), p.44 - 49, 2015/12

BB2014-1632.pdf:0.71MB

https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2015.1096989

The molecular orientation is one of the important factors for controlling various properties in organic semiconductor materials. Films are usually heterogeneous. Thus they exist as a mixture of microscopic domains which have a variety of orientation directions. Therefore, it is essential to observe selectively microscopic domains with different orientation direction. In this work, we have developed the photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM) system combined with the linearly polarized vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light or synchrotron radiation (SR) X-rays. PEEM images (FOV = ca.50 micro m) for poly(3-hexylthiophene), P3HT thin films were observed under the UV irradiation with various polarization angles, including in-plain and out-of-plain polarization. Morphologies at some bright parts are different each other. The resultant observation suggests that it enables us to distinguish oriented micro-domains with specific directions of polymer chain axis from other amorphous parts.

Synthesis of hexagonal boron carbonitride without nitrogen void defects

Mannan, M. A.*; Baba, Yuji; Kida, Tetsuya*; Nagano, Masamitsu*; Noguchi, Hideyuki*

Materials Sciences and Applications, 6(5), p.353 - 359, 2015/05

https://doi.org/10.4236/msa.2015.65041

The synthesis and structure of hexagonal boron carbonitride (h-BCN) film on polycrystalline diamond surface were reported. Polycrystalline diamond and/or diamond-like carbon were first fabricated on Si (100) and then it was used as substrate. The deposition was performed by radio frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. In order to reduce the content of nitrogen void defects, the deposition was performed at the high temperature of 950C under the working pressure of 2.6 Pa. The typical sample with atomic composition of BCNO in the h-BCN lattice was characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The fine structure of the film was studied by near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements. The B K-edge and N K-edge of NEXAFS spectra revealed that the synthesized h-BCN film has the ideal honeycomb-like BN configuration without nitrogen void defects.

Molecular orientation of pentacene derivative

Ikeura, Hiromi*; Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro

Photon Factory Activity Report 2013, Part B, P. 518, 2014/00

Organic electrically conducting -stacked small molecules are widely regarded as promising materials for future application of low-cost and flexible nanoelectronics. Pentacene is one of the most promising organic semiconductors because of its excellent device performance. Direct measurements of electronic structures of unoccupied states of organic semiconductors lead to better understanding of mechanism of electron conduction. For probing unoccupied partial density of states (DOS), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is commonly used, where selective excitation of the 1s core electron to the unoccupied conduction band is possible. The molecular orientation of pentacene derivative has been investigated by angle dependent XAS measurements. Electronic states were calculated by DVX method.

Polymeric Co-C compound phase evolved in atomistically mixed thin films

Sakai, Seiji; Naramoto, Hiroshi*; Lavrentiev, V.*; Narumi, Kazumasa; Maekawa, Masaki; Kawasuso, Atsuo; Yaita, Tsuyoshi; Baba, Yuji

Materials Transactions, 46(4), p.765 - 768, 2005/04

https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.46.765

A systematic study of the atom-level mixtures between Co and C has made possible to find a new C-based compound phase, CoC (x5). It is confirmed with the EXAFS analysis and the positron annihilation study that the polymeric structure is developed three-dimensionally by bridging two C molecules with the covalently bonded Co atom.

NEXAFS spectra of an epitaxial boron nitride film on Ni(111)

Shimoyama, Iwao; Baba, Yuji; Sekiguchi, Tetsuhiro; Nath, K. G.

Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 137-140, p.573 - 578, 2004/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2004.02.040

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) thin film has been epitaxially formed on Ni(111) by chemical vapor deposition using borazine gas. The electronic structure of this system is studied by near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The thickness of the h-BN is estimated to be about two-layers from XPS. B K-edge NEXAFS spectra show new * peak which is not observed in the spectrum for bulk h-BN. From a polarization dependence analysis of NEXAFS, we propose this new * peak originates from the interaction between the h-BN and Ni(111). This new * peak clearly proves that conduction band of h-BN/Ni(111) is different from that of bulk h-BN.

Re/Os constraint on the time variability of the fine-structure constant

Fujii, Yasunori*; Iwamoto, Akira

Physical Review Letters, 91(26), p.261101_1 - 261101_4, 2003/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.261101

no abstracts in English

Nuclear moments and isotope shifts of La, La and La by collinear laser spectroscopy

Iimura, Hideki; Koizumi, Mitsuo; Miyabe, Masabumi; Oba, Masaki; Shibata, Takemasa; Shinohara, Nobuo; Ishida, Yoshihisa*; Horiguchi, Takayoshi*; Schuessler, H. A.*

Physical Review C, 68(5), p.054328_1 - 054328_7, 2003/11

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.68.054328

no abstracts in English

A study on improvements in accuracy of nuclear data measurements using -ray spectroscopic methods

Furutaka, Kazuyoshi

JNC TN8400 2000-028, 70 Pages, 2000/10

JNC-TN8400-2000-028.pdf:1.71MB

This report describes the study done by the author as a postdoctoral research associate at Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute. This report is divided into two parts: improvements in accuracy in determination of thermal neutron capture cross sections, and improvements in accuracy of photo-nuclear absorption cross section measurements using the HHS. (1)In the measurements of thermal neutron capture cross sections using an activation method, accuracies of the final results attained are limited by (1) accuracy of -ray peak detection efficiencies, and (2) accuracies of -ray emission probabilities. In this study; to determine thermal neutron capture cross sections more accurately, the following researches have been done using a newly developed three-dimensional coincidence measurement system: (1)accurate determination of -ray standard sources using a - coincidence method, for precise calibration of -ray peak detection efficiency, and (2) development of a - coincidence measurement system using a plastic scintillation detector as a -ray detector, for the determination of -ray emission probabilities of short-lived nuclides, and measurement of -ray emission probabilities of Tc nuclide using the coincidence system. (2)To transform radioactive nuclides with small thermal neutron capture cross sections, use of photonuclear absorption reaction has been suggested. In order to transform these nuclides efficiently using the reaction, one has to know detailed behavior of the photo-absorption cross sections. In this study, a Monte-Carlo simulation code has been used to create a standard set of -ray response functions of the high-resolution high-energy spectrometer (HHS), to enable reliable analyses of the data obtained by the spectrometer.