Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains a distillation of the papers given at the 6th International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structures which was held at the University of York in August 1990. The book reflects the rapid growth in this area of science, reporting on a number of diverse matters ranging from metalloproteins to industrial catalysts. New ideas for a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of various effects are proposed and state-of-the-art instrumentation and new concepts for carrying out time-resolved studies are discussed.;Topics covered include: a comprehensive account of theoretical aspects of EXAFS and XANES, an up-to-date picture of circular dichroism and magnetic circular dichroism in the X-ray region, the application of the XAFS technique to the study of the structure/function relationship of metalloproteins, surface science, glasses and covalent systems, the use of XAFS for characterizing high Tc superconductors, catalytic systems and small metal cluster, applications in the Earth sciences, the growing use of XAFS in the soft X-ray region, experimental trends and time-resolved studies.
