NEAR EDGE FINE STRUCTURE OF Li, Be AND GRAPHITE BY X-RAY RAMAN SCATTERING

Abstract
The near edge fine structure of the x-ray Raman spectra in Li, Be and graphite was measured in an x-ray inelastic scattering experiment with 0.8 eV resolution. The x-ray Raman spectrum, which is identical to the dynamical structure factor S([MATH], ω) of inner-shell electrons for qa < 1, where hq i s the momentum transfer and a is the orbital radius of the inner-shell electrons, has been confirmed experimentally to be equivalent to the corresponding soft x-ray absorption spectrum. It is concluded that x-ray Raman scattering has several experimental advantages over an absorption experiment for light elements.