Synchrotron Radiation: Production and Properties (Oxford Series on Synchrotron Radiation, 3)

This book introduces in a thorough and self-contained way the production of electromagnetic radiation by high energy electron storage rings. This radiation, which is called synchroton radiation, has become a research tool of wide application. Physicists, chemists, biologists, geologists, engineers, material scientists, and other scientific disciplines use it as a structural probe for the study of surfaces, bulk material, crystals, and viruses. Solids, liquids and gases can be; spectroscopically analysed by using synchroton radiation. This book brings together for the first time the properties as well as the means of production of synchroton radiation and presents them in a coherent and clear way. It will be an indispensable reference for all those involved in modern synchroton; radiation experiments '... Those Who Do Wonder About The Origins Of Synchrotron Radiation Will Find P.j. Duke's Book A Valuable And Thorough Source Of Facts Describing Its Physical Basis From First Principles... The Reader Sees The Elaborate Production And Remarkable Properties Of Synchrotron Radiation Unfolded Within Merely 251 Pages And 15 Chapters... More Than Forty Years Of Experience In The Field Qualify The Author To Educate An International Interdisciplinary Community Od Synchrotron Radiation Users' Journal Synchrotron Radiationsynchroton Radiation Is Without Doubt The Most Important New Source Of Electromagnetic Radiation And Has Drastically Transformed The Study Of The Properties Of Materials. Now A Research Tool Of Wide Application, Synchroton Radiation Is Used By Physicists, Chemists, Biologists, Geologists, Material Scientists, Engineers And Scholars Of Other Scientific Disciplines. This Book Presents The Properties Of Synchroton Radiation In A Clear And Self-contained Way And Explains The Advanced Techniques Which Are Required For Its Production. "The purpose of this book is to provide a thorough and self-contained introduction to the production and properties of synchrotron radiation. This form of radiation, produced using high-energy electron storage rings, has become a research tool of wide application." "The interdisciplinary groups of scientists using synchrotron radiation are the target audience for this book. The author brings together material from a wide range of scattered sources and presents it for this group of synchrotron radiation users. Beginning with the foundations of electromagnetic theory he explains the production of synchrotron radiation using storage ring dipole magnets. He also deals with the production of radiation using insertion device sources."--Jacket