Adam P. Hitchcock Professor, Canada Research Chair in Materials Research - CLS/CCRS  B.Sc. (McMaster), Ph.D. (British Columbia), F.C.I.C.

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Mailing Address: Dr A.P. Hitchcock Department of Chemistry McMaster University Hamilton, Ont., Canada L8S 4M1  Office: ABB-422  Laboratory: ABB-332

Telephone: Voice (905) 525-9140, ext. 24749 FAX   (905) 521-2773  Internet: aph@mcmaster.ca

Hitchcock group web site

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Chemical Analysis by Electron and X-ray Excited Inner-shell Spectroscopies

     Chemists usually think of valence-shell electronic excitation (i.e. UV-visible spectroscopy) when they wish to learn something about a substance through a study of its electronic structure. In fact, there are many advantages to the use of inner-shell spectroscopies for chemical and materials investigations. These include: a much less congested spectroscopy than UV-visible; atom-localised electronic states such that the electronic structure about specific elements can be investigated even in the presence of many other elements. My group is at the forefront of the field of inner-shell spectroscopy, both in terms of developing new techniques and new applications.

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WWW Sites of Interest

 

• X-ray WWW Server containing the hypertext database from the paper: A.P. Hitchcock and D.C. Mancini
• Bibliography and database of inner shell excitation spectra of gas phase atoms and molecules. J. Electron Spectrosc and Rel. Phen., 67, 1994.
• Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation.
• Canadian Light Source/Centre canadien du rayonnement synchrotron

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Hitchcock group's web Server
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 21-Apr-02; aph