Handbook on the physics and chemistry of rare earths. Volume 10, High energy spectroscopy

Covers topics pertaining to solid state physics and materials science, and describes organic (and inorganic) reactions mediated by tetravalent cerium-based oxidants and by divalent samarium-based reductants. This book also focuses on the synthesis and use of divalent samarium-based reductants in organic and inorganic reactions. The principle of the spectroscopies considered here is to expose a solid to an electron or photon beam of known high-energy which interacts with the N electrons of the system and to select the type and the energy of the emitted particles resulting from the transitions induced in the solid (see figs. 3 and 4).