Interaction Matter-Polarized Light

Yves Joly (1)

1 NEEL - SIN - Surfaces, Interfaces et Nanostructures

This chapter presents the process of interaction of light, mainly in the xray range, with matter. The subject is introduced by some experimental evidences of x-ray absorption, emission or scattering by different kinds of material. The ways of describing the electromagnetic wave field are then briefly presented before developing its interaction with an electron in an atom. This process is then applied in the context of core x-ray spectroscopies. The absorption, the dichroism and the resonant diffraction are then specifically presented before giving some key elements to manage monoelectronic simulations.

Mots clés: x-ray matter interaction; absorption spectroscopy; XMCD

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Yves Joly. Interaction Matter-Polarized Light. Eric Beaurepaire, Hervé Bulou, Fabrice Scheurer, Jean-Paul Kappler. Magnetism and Synchrotron Radiation, Springer, pp.77, 2009, Springer Proceedings in Physics 133, 978-3-642-94497-7. ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-04498-4_3⟩. ⟨hal-00694949⟩