{"id":182794,"date":"2024-02-16T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-auger-electron-spectroscopy"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:23:53","slug":"unlocking-the-full-potential-of-auger-electron-spectroscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-auger-electron-spectroscopy","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the full potential of Auger electron spectroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-auger-electron-spectroscopy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) is an incredibly useful technique for probing material samples\u2014but current assumptions about the process ignore some of the key time-dependent effects it involves. So far, this has resulted in overly-simplified calculations, which have ultimately prevented the technique from reaching its full potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1140\/epjp\/s13360-023-04717-4\">In a study published in <i>The European Physical Journal Plus<\/i><\/a> Alberto Noccera at the University of British Columbia, Canada, together with Adrian Feiguin at Northeastern University, United States, developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+computational+approach\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new computational approach<\/a> which offers a more precise theoretical description of the AES process, while taking its time dependence into account. Their method could help researchers to improve their quality of material analysis across a wide array of fields: including chemistry, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental science<\/a>, and microelectronics.<\/p>\n<p>In the Auger process, an inner-shell electron is initially kicked out of its atom, often through an impact with an energetic light pulse. Afterward, the vacancy it leaves behind is filled by an outer-shell electron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) is an incredibly useful technique for probing material samples\u2014but current assumptions about the process ignore some of the key time-dependent effects it involves. So far, this has resulted in overly-simplified calculations, which have ultimately prevented the technique from reaching its full potential. In a study published in The European Physical Journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}