PUBLICATIONS since 1994 of the Hitchcock group

McMaster GRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS indicated by italics
last changed: 18 June 2002 (aph)

I.N. Koprinarov, A.P. Hitchcock, C. McCrory and R.F. Childs, Quantitative Mapping of Structured Polymeric Systems Using Singular Value Decomposition Analysis of soft X-ray Images, J. Phys. Chem. B (2002) accepted Mar-02
E.G. Rightor, S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, H. Ade, A.P. Smith, G.E. Mitchell, R.D. Priester and W. Lidy, Identification and Quantitation of Urea Precipitates in flexible Polyurethanes by X-ray Spectromicroscopy, Macromolecules (2002) accepted Mar-02
K. Kaznacheyev, A. Osanna, C. Jacobsen, O. Plashkevych, O. Vahtras, H. Ågren, V. Carravetta and A.P. Hitchcock, Inner-Shell Absorption Spectroscopy of Amino Acids, J. Chem. Phys. 106 (2002) 3153-3168. get pdf
G.E. Mitchell, L. R. Wilson, M.T. Dineen, S.G. Urquhart, F. Hayes, E.G. Rightor, A.P. Hitchcock, H. Ade, Characterization of Microscopic Variations in the Crosslink Density of a Gel, Macromolecules 35 (2002) 1336 -1341get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock, C. Morin, T. Tyliszczak, I.N. Koprinarov, H. Ikeura-Sekiguchi, J.R. Lawrence and G.G. Leppard, Soft X-ray microscopy of soft matter - hard information from two softs, Surface Reviews and Letters, (2002) accepted July 2001
A.P. Hitchcock, Chemical mapping with soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, American Laboratory, 33 (2001) 30-36 get pdf
C. Morin, H. Ikeura-Sekiguchi, T. Tyliszczak, R. Cornelius, J.L. Brash, A.P. Hitchcock A. Scholl, F. Nolting, G. Appel, A. D. Winesett, K. Kaznacheyev and H. Ade, X-ray Spectromicroscopy of immiscible polymer blends: polystyrene-poly(methyl methacrylate), J. Electron Spectroscopy121 (2001) 203-224 get pdf
R. Flesch, A.A. Pavlychev, J.J. Neville, J. Blumberg, M. Kuhlmann, W. Tappe, F. Senf, O. Schwarzkopf, A.P. Hitchcock, and E. Rühl, Dynamic Stabilization in N1s -> pi*-Excited Nitrogen Clusters, Physical Review Letters 86 (2001) 3767-3770. get pdf
I.N. Koprinarov, A.P. Hitchcock, W.H. Li, Y.M. Heng and H.D.H. Stöver, Quantitative Compositional Mapping of Core-Shell Polymer Microspheres by Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy, Macromolecules 34 (2001) 4424-4429. get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock, I.N. Koprinarov, T. Tyliszczak, E.G. Rightor, G.E. Mitchell, M.T. Dineen, F. Hayes, W. Lidy, R.D. Priester, S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Smith, H. Ade, Copolymer polyol particles in polyurethanes studied by soft X-ray spectromicroscopy, Ultramicroscopy 88 (2001) 33-49. get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock, L.E. Ennis, J.F. Lehmann and M.K. Denk, Transient ISEELS: a new probe of chemical reactions, J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 114-116 (2001)1037-1042. get pdf (4 Mb)
T. Tyliszczak, I.G. Eustatiu, A.P. Hitchcock, C.C. Turci, A.B. Rocha and C.E. Bielschowsky, Generalized Oscillator Strength Profiles for Inner Shell Excitation of CO2 Derived from Variable Angle Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 114-116 (2001) 93-98. get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock, Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy of Polymers and Bio-polymer interfaces, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 8 (2001) 66-71. get pdf
B.W. Loo, Jr., I.M. Sauerwald, A.P. Hitchcock and S.S. Rothman, A new sample preparation method for soft X-ray microscopy: nitrogen based contrast and radiation tolerance properties of glycol methacrylate-embedded and sectioned tissue, J. Microscopy 204 (2001) 69-86. get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock and J.J. Neville, Photoionization Dynamics from Inner shell Mass Spectrometry, chapter in "Chemical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation" (T.K. Sham, ed.) (World Scientific, 2001)
A.P. Hitchcock, Inner shell Excitation Spectroscopy of Molecules using Inelastic Electron Scattering, J. Electron Spectroscopy Rel. Phenom. 112 (2000) 9-29.
I.G. Eustatiu, J. T. Francis, T. Tyliszczak, C.C. Turci, A.L.D. Kilcoyne and A. P. Hitchcock, A high-performance electron energy loss spectrometer: generalized oscillator strengths for inner-shell excitation of SF6 , Chem. Phys. 257 (2000) 235 - 252.
I.G. Eustatiu, T. Tyliszczak, A.P. Hitchcock, C.C. Turci, A.B. Rocha and C.E. Bielschowsky, Experimental and theoretical study of generalized oscillator strengths for C 1s and O 1s excitation in CO₂, Physical Review A 61 (2000) 042505 (14 pages)
Z.H. Lu, T. Tyliszczak, A.P. Hitchcock and M.W.C. Dharma-wardana, Structure of the Cl-passivated Ge(111) surface determined using X-ray absorption and first principles calculations, Surface Science 442 (1999) L948-952. get pdf
Z.H. Lu, T. Tyliszczak, P. Brodersen, A.P. Hitchcock, J.B. Webb, H. Tang, and J. Bardwell, Local microstructures of Si in GaN studied by X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett.75 (1999) 534-538.
L.E. Ennis and A.P. Hitchcock, Inner Shell Excitation Spectroscopy of Transient Molecules: HBS, HBO and H₃B₃O₃, J. Chemical Physics 111 (1999) 3468-3478.
A.P. Hitchcock and J.J. Neville, Some Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Chemistry and Physics, Physics in Canada 55 (1999) 191-198.
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, A.P. Smith, H.W. Ade, W. Lidy, E. G. Rightor and G.E. Mitchell, NEXAFS Spectromicroscopy of Polymers: Overview and Quantitative Analysis of Polyurethane Polymers, J. Electron Spectrosc. Rel. Phenom. 100 (1999) 119-135. get pdf
I.T. Steinberger, B. Wassermann, C.M. Teodorescu, G. Reichhardt, D. Gravel, C.W. Hutchings, A.P. Hitchcock, P.A. Dowben and E. Rühl, Kr 3p and Xe 4p Rydberg and core exciton series, Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 3995-4004.
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Smith, H.W. Ade, A.P. Hitchcock, E.G. Rightor and W. Lidy, NEXAFS Spectroscopy of MDI and TDI Polyurethane Polymers, J. Phys. Chem. B 103 (1999) 4603-4610.
J.C. Aubry, T. Tyliszczak, A.P. Hitchcock, J.-M. Baribeau and T.E. Jackman, First shell bond lengths in SixGe1-x single crystal alloys, Phys. Rev. B 59 (1999) 12872-12883.
J.F. Lehmann, L. Ennis, A.P. Hitchcock, S.G. Urquhart, K. Hatano, S. Gupta and M.K. Denk, Core Excitation Spectroscopy Study of Delocalization in Stable Cyclic Diamino Carbenes, Silylenes and Germylenes, Organometallics 18 (1999) 1862-1872.
I. G. Eustatiu, T. Tyliszczak and A. P. Hitchcock, Inner-shell electron energy-loss spectroscopy of SF₆ at very high momentum transfer, Chem. Phys. Lett.300 (1999) 676-680.
J.J. Neville, T. Tyliszczak, A.P. Hitchcock, A. Jürgensen and R.G. Cavell, P 1s spectroscopy of SPF₃: spectral assignments aided by angle-resolved photodissociation, Chem. Phys. Lett. 300 (1999) 451-459.
J.J. Neville, T. Tyliszczak and A.P. Hitchcock, Photofragmentation of OCS at the S 1s edge, J. Electron Spectrosc.101-103 (1999) 119-124. get pdf
Z.H. Lu, T.Tyliszczak and A.P. Hitchcock, Structure of the Cl-passivated GaAs(111) surface, Phys. Rev. B 58 (1998) 13820-13823.
T. Warwick, K. Franck, J.B. Kortwight, G. Meigs, M. Moronne, S. Myneni, E. Rotenberg, S. Seal, W.F. Steele, H. Ade, A. Garcia, S. Cerasari, J. Denlinger, S. Hayakawa, A.P. Hitchcock, T. Tyliszczak, E.G. Rightor, H.-J. Shin and B. Tonner, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope for Materials Science Spectromicroscopy at the Advanced Light Source, Review of Scientific Instruments, 69 (1998) 2964-2973.
J.J. Neville, A. Jürgensen, R.G. Cavell, N. Kosugi and A.P. Hitchcock, Inner-shell excitation of PF₃, PCl₃, PCl₂CF₃, OPF₃ and SPF₃. Part 1. Spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. 238 (1998) 201-220.
I.G. Eustatiu, B. Huo, S.G. Urquhart and A.P. Hitchcock, Isomeric Sensitivity of the C 1s spectra of xylenes, J. Electron Spectrosc. 94( 1998) 243-252. get pdf
C. W. Hutchings, A. P. Hitchcock, A. T. Wen, S.-D. Hwang, J. A. Glass, J. T. Spencer, Y.-F. Hu, G. M. Bancroft, P. A. Dowben, Valence Band Photoemission and Near Edge Core Excitation Spectroscopy of Di-t-butylchlorophosphine, J. Electron Spectrosc. 94 (1998) 187-194. get pdf
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, J.F. Lehmann and M. Denk, Probing Delocalization in Stable Silylenes: Core Excitation Spectra of Si(NRCH=CHNR), Si(NRCH₂CH₂NR), H₂Si(NRCH=CHNR) and H₂Si(NRCH₂CH₂NR) (R = tBu), Organometallics 17 (1998), 2352-2360.
A.P. Hitchcock, J.J. Neville, A. Jürgensen and R.G. Cavell, Ionic Fragmentation of Inner-shell Excited Molecules, J. Electron Spectrosc. 88-91 (1998) 71-76. get pdf
A.P. Hitchcock, I.G. Eustatiu, J.T. Francis and C.C. Turci, Electron Impact Core excitation of molecules: Non-dipole spectroscopy and generalised oscillator strengths, J. Electron Spectrosc. 88-91 (1998) 77-82. get pdf
S. Wu, Z. Shi, J. Lipkowski, A.P. Hitchcock and T. Tyliszczak, Early Stages of Copper Electrocrystallisation: Electrochemical and in situ X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Studies of Coadsorption of Copper and Chloride at the Au(111) Electrode Surface, J. Phys. Chem. B 101 (1997) 10310-10320.
T. Warwick, H. Padmore, H. Ade, A.P. Hitchcock, E.G. Rightor and B. Tonner, Soft-X-ray Spectromicroscopy Development for Materials Science at the Advanced Light Source J. Electron Spectrosc. 84 (1997) 85-98.
H. Ade, A.P. Smith, H. Zhang, B. Winn, J. Kirz, E. Rightor and A.P. Hitchcock, X-ray spectromicroscopy of polymers and tribological surfaces at beamline X1A at the NSLS, J. Electron Spectrosc. 84 (1997) 53-72.
S.G. Urquhart, C.C. Turci, T. Tyliszczak, M.A. Brook and A.P. Hitchcock, Core excitation spectroscopy of phenyl- and methyl-substituted silanol, disiloxane and disilane compounds: Evidence for p-Delocalisation across the Si-Cphenyl Bond. Organometallics 16 (1997) 2080-2088.
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, A.P. Smith, H. Ade and E.G. Rightor, Inner-shell excitation spectroscopy of Polymer and Monomer Isomers of Dimethyl Phthalate, J. Phys. Chem. B 101 (1997) 2267-2276.
N. Kosugi, R.G. Cavell and A.P. Hitchcock, (LS) versus (jj) coupling in P 2p inner-shell excited states, Chem. Phys. Lett 265 (1997) 490-496
A.P. Hitchcock, S.G. Urquhart, A.T. Wen, A.L.D. Kilcoyne, T. Tyliszczak, E. Rühl, N. Kosugi, J.D. Bozek, J.T. Spencer, D.N. McIlroy and P.A. Dowben, Inner-shell excitation spectroscopy of closo-carboranes , J. Phys. Chem.B 101 (1997) 3483-3493..
E.G. Rightor, A.P. Hitchcock, H. Ade, R.D. Leapman, S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Smith, G. Mitchell, D. Fischer, H.J. Shin and T. Warwick, Spectromicroscopy of Poly(ethylene terephthalate):Comparison of Spectra and Radiation Damage Rates in X-ray Absorption and Electron Energy Loss, J. Phys. Chem. B 101 (1997) 1950-1960.
E. Rühl, A. Knop, A.P. Hitchcock, P.A. Dowben and D.N. McIlroy, Core Excitation in Free Clusters: Ionization, Relaxation and Fragmentation, Surface Reviews and Letters 3 (1996) 557-565.
C.C. Turci, S.G. Urquhart and A.P. Hitchcock, Inner-shell excitation spectroscopy of aniline, nitrobenzene, and nitroanilines Can. J. Chem. 74 (1996) 851-869.
J.Z. Xiong, D.T. Jiang, Z.F. Liu, K.M. Baines, T.K. Sham, S.G. Urquhart, A.T. Wen, T. Tyliszczak and A.P. Hitchcock, Si core level excitation of hexamethyldisilane studied by synchrotron radiation and multiple scattering Xa calculation, Chem. Phys. 203 (1996) 81-92.
J.T. Francis, C.C. Turci, T. Tyliszczak, G.G.B. de Souza, N. Kosugi and A.P. Hitchcock, Electron impact core excitation of SF₆: Part I: S 2p, S 2s and F 1s spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. A 52 (1995) 4665-4677.
C.C. Turci, J.T. Francis, T. Tyliszczak, G.G.B. de Souza and A.P. Hitchcock, Electron impact core excitation of SF₆: Part II: Generalized Oscillator Strengths in the S 2p region, Phys. Rev. A 52 (1995) 4678-4688.
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, R.D. Leapman, R.D. Priester and E.G. Rightor, Analysis of Polyurethanes using Core Excitation Spectroscopy. Part I. Model Polyurethane Foam Polymers. J. Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics, 33 (1995) 1593-1602.
S.G. Urquhart, A.P. Hitchcock, R.D. Priester and E.G. Rightor, Analysis of Polyurethanes using Core Excitation Spectroscopy. Part II. Inner-shell Spectra of Ether, Urea and Carbamate Model Compounds, J. Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics, 33 (1995) 1603-1620.
A.P. Hitchcock and T. Tyliszczak, Surface studies by core-excitation reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy, Surface Reviews and Letters 2 (1995) 43-61.
E. Rühl, A.P. Hitchcock, P. Morin and M. Lavollée, Core Excitation in Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Journal de Chimie et Physique 92 (1995) 521-534.
T. Tyliszczak, A.P. Hitchcock, Z.H. Lu, J-M. Baribeau and T.E. Jackman, X-ray Absorption Studies of strain in epitaxial (Si-Ge) atomic layer superlattices and alloy films, Scanning Microscopy 8 (1994) 795-802
J.T. Francis, N. Kosugi and A.P. Hitchcock, Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the (C 1s->p*) ³p State of CO: Momentum Transfer Dependence and Vibrational Structure, J. Chem. Phys. 101 (1994) 10429-10435.
S.G. Urquhart, J.Z. Xiong, A.T. Wen, T.K. Sham, K.M. Baines, G.G.B. de Souza and A.P. Hitchcock, Inner-shell Spectroscopy of compounds containing Si-Si bonds: Is there a localised, low-energy Si-Si resonance?, Chem. Phys. 189 (1994) 757-768.
J.T. Francis, C. Enkvist, S. Lunell and A.P. Hitchcock, Studies of C 1s -> p* Triplet states of Carbon Monoxide, Benzene, Ethylene and Acetylene, Can. J. Phys. 72 (1994) 879-884.
A. Knop, H.W. Jochims, A.L.D. Kilcoyne, A.P. Hitchcock, and E. Rühl, ZEKE Spectroscopy of Ar(2p) Excited Argon Clusters, Chem. Phys. Lett. 223 (1994) 553-560.
J.T. Francis and A.P. Hitchcock, Distinguishing Keto and Enol Structures by Inner-shell Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Chem. 98 (1994) 3650-3657.
A.P. Hitchcock, T.Tyliszczak, M.L.M. Rocco, J.T. Francis, S.G. Urquhart, Z.H. Feng, Z.H. Lu, J.M. Baribeau and T.E. Jackman, Polarization Dependence of the Si 1s X-ray Absorption Spectra of Single Crystal Si-Ge Alloys and Atomic Layer Superlattices, J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 12 (1994) 1142-1147.
A.P. Hitchcock, T.Tyliszczak, P. Aebi, X.H. Feng, Z.H. Lu, J.M. Baribeau and T.E. Jackman, Polarization Dependence of the Si 1s X-ray Absorption Spectra of Si-Ge Atomic Layer Superlattices, Surf. Sci. 301 (1994) 260-272.
A.P. Hitchcock and D.C. Mancini, Bibliography and Database of Inner-shell Excitation Spectra of Gas Phase Atoms and Molecules, J. Electron Spectrosc. 67 (1994) 1-123.