Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a surface-sensitive analytical technique that provides information about the elemental composition, chemical state, and electronic structure of a material's surface ...

Scientists reconstructed a molecule’s full three-dimensional electron wavefunction using a laboratory system instead of a large synchrotron facility. A new algorithm produced reliable orbital images ...

A new technique reconstructs full 3D molecular wavefunctions using photoelectron spectroscopy and computational algorithms, ...

Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) has emerged as a cornerstone technique for probing the electronic structure of organic molecules, offering direct measurement of binding energies and orbital character ...

The world's first dual-beamline photoelectron momentum microscope has been developed at the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, Japan. This innovative experimental station brings breakthroughs in studying the ...

One of the most famous and intriguing results of quantum mechanics is the finding that fundamental particles, such as ...

New research shows that X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) can give misleading analysis results due to an erroneous assumption during calibration. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is often ...

Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A ...

An X-ray photoelectron spectrometer is an impressive bit of kit. The relatively low energy of the detected photoelectrons dictates that the experiments are performed in ultra-high vacuum. The ...

Physicists at Göttingen University imaged three-dimensional wave functions using a tabletop soft X-ray laser. An electron ...

The basic physical process of irradiating a material with photons of a known energy and measuring the ejected photoelectrons has remained unchanged over six decades since it was first commercialized.