Scanning photoelectron spectromicroscopy: From static to operando studies of functional materials

Author(s)
M. Amati, Toma Susi, P. Jovičević-Klug, M. Jovičević-Klug, Tomasz Kosmala, Gaetano Granozzi, Stefano Agnoli, Pengfei Yang, Yanfeng Zhang, Mattia Scardamaglia, L. Gregoratti
Abstract

The scanning photoelectron microscope (SPEM), developed more than 30 years ago, has undergone numerous technical developments, providing an incredibly vast kind of feasible sample environments, which span from the traditional high spatial resolution core level based chemical analysis to insitu and operando complex experiments, including also electrochemical setups and operational electronic devices at various temperatures. Another important step ahead is overcoming the so-called pressure gap for operando studies, recently extended to near ambient values by building special environmental cells. Using recent results of conventional and unconventional experiments, obtained with SPEM at the ESCA Microscopy beamline at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste the present review demonstrates the current potential of this type of photoelectron spectromicroscopy to explore the interfacial properties of functional materials with high spatial resolution.

Organisation(s)
Physics of Nanostructured Materials
External organisation(s)
Elettra─Sincrotrone Trieste, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, University of Padova, University of Wrocław, Peking University, Lund University
Journal
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena
Volume
265
No. of pages
11
ISSN
0368-2048
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2023.147336
Publication date
05-2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103018 Materials physics, 104026 Spectroscopy
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Radiation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Spectroscopy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/scanning-photoelectron-spectromicroscopy-from-static-to-operando-studies-of-functional-materials(8349dfb9-0d16-4cff-85c4-5d72e26ce048).html