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@MASTERSTHESIS{Schunck:427661,
author = {Schunck, Jan},
othercontributors = {Beye, Martin and Schroer, Christian},
title = {{C}ombining resonant inelastic {X}-ray scattering with
micrometer resolution to image electronic properties of
quantum materials},
school = {University of Hamburg},
type = {Masterarbeit},
reportid = {PUBDB-2019-04127},
pages = {59 pages},
year = {2019},
note = {Masterarbeit, University of Hamburg, 2019},
abstract = {This thesis presents developments and results of an
experimental setup which combines soft X-ray spectroscopy
methods for electronic structure analysis and imaging
capabilities with the goal to gain detailed understanding of
quantum materials, which exhibit spatial electronic
inhomogeneities. The setup features a combination of two
Fresnel zone plates which are about 1mm long and sub-μm
wide: Firstly, a linear illumination zone plate creates a
vertical X-ray focus line on the sample. Secondly, an
off-axis zone plate, located between the sample and the
two-dimensional detector, disperses X-rays emitted from the
sample in horizontal direction, while also imaging the
sample onto the detector at the same time. In this way, a 2D
map is created on the detector which, in the vertical
dimension, contains information on the position on the
sample from where the X-rays are emitted, and in the
horizontal dimension resolves the photon energies emitted
from the sample. The presented experiment was performed at
the soft X-ray beamline P04 of the synchrotron radiation
source PETRA III at the DESY research facility in Hamburg.
In the first part of the experiment, the spatial resolution
of the setup was determined to be better than 3 μm.
Secondly, this spatial resolution was combined with X-ray
absorption (XAS) and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
(RIXS) measurements at the oxygen Kedge to investigate the
insulator-to-metal phase transition of VO2 microsquares with
an edge length of 30 μm. These structures were studied, in
order to answer the question if the phase transition
behaviour is different in structured parts of a sample,
where the defect density at the edges of structures may act
as nucleation centres. This is compared to the central area
of the squares acting as a model for a bulk material
reference. This is an important step towards functionalising
phase transitions in complex materials, where insights from
bulk materials may not readily be transferred to structured
devices.},
cin = {FS-FLASH},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-FLASH-20140814},
pnm = {6G3 - PETRA III (POF3-622) / 6214 - Nanoscience and
Materials for Information Technology (POF3-621) /
FS-Proposal: I-20180454 (I-20180454) / VH-NG-1105 - Novel
soft X-ray spectroscopies for materials science
$(2016_IVF-VH-NG-1105)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G3 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6214 /
G:(DE-H253)I-20180454 / $G:(DE-HGF)2016_IVF-VH-NG-1105$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)P-P04-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)19},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/427661},
}