Development of a spectro-electrochemical cell for soft X-ray photon-in photon-out spectroscopy
(2017) In Review of Scientific Instruments 88(10). p.104101-104101- Abstract
We developed a spectro-electrochemical cell for X-ray absorption and X-ray emission spectroscopy, which are element-specific methods to study local electronic structures in the soft X-ray region. In the usual electrochemical measurement setup, the electrode is placed in solution, and the surface/interface region of the electrode is not normally accessible by soft X-rays that have low penetration depth in liquids. To realize soft X-ray observation of electrochemical reactions, a 15-nm-thick Pt layer was deposited on a 150-nm-thick film window with an adhesive 3-nm-thick Ti layer for use as both the working electrode and the separator window between vacuum and a sample liquid under atmospheric pressure. The designed three-electrode... (More)
We developed a spectro-electrochemical cell for X-ray absorption and X-ray emission spectroscopy, which are element-specific methods to study local electronic structures in the soft X-ray region. In the usual electrochemical measurement setup, the electrode is placed in solution, and the surface/interface region of the electrode is not normally accessible by soft X-rays that have low penetration depth in liquids. To realize soft X-ray observation of electrochemical reactions, a 15-nm-thick Pt layer was deposited on a 150-nm-thick film window with an adhesive 3-nm-thick Ti layer for use as both the working electrode and the separator window between vacuum and a sample liquid under atmospheric pressure. The designed three-electrode electrochemical cell consists of a Pt film on a SiC window, a platinized Pt wire, and a commercial Ag|AgCl electrode as the working, counter, and reference electrodes, respectively. The functionality of the cell was tested by cyclic voltammetry and X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. As a demonstration, the electroplating of Pb on the Pt/SiC membrane window was measured by X-ray absorption and real-time monitoring of fluorescence intensity at the O 1s excitation.
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- Ishihara, Tomoko ; Tokushima, Takashi LU ; Horikawa, Yuka ; Kato, Masaru and Yagi, Ichizo
- publishing date
- 2017-10
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
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- Review of Scientific Instruments
- volume
- 88
- issue
- 10
- pages
- 104101 - 104101
- publisher
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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- pmid:29092480
- scopus:85032035580
- ISSN
- 1089-7623
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4997820
- language
- English
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- 30f14537-8261-48f2-95d2-06121ff6d489
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abstract = {{<p>We developed a spectro-electrochemical cell for X-ray absorption and X-ray emission spectroscopy, which are element-specific methods to study local electronic structures in the soft X-ray region. In the usual electrochemical measurement setup, the electrode is placed in solution, and the surface/interface region of the electrode is not normally accessible by soft X-rays that have low penetration depth in liquids. To realize soft X-ray observation of electrochemical reactions, a 15-nm-thick Pt layer was deposited on a 150-nm-thick film window with an adhesive 3-nm-thick Ti layer for use as both the working electrode and the separator window between vacuum and a sample liquid under atmospheric pressure. The designed three-electrode electrochemical cell consists of a Pt film on a SiC window, a platinized Pt wire, and a commercial Ag|AgCl electrode as the working, counter, and reference electrodes, respectively. The functionality of the cell was tested by cyclic voltammetry and X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. As a demonstration, the electroplating of Pb on the Pt/SiC membrane window was measured by X-ray absorption and real-time monitoring of fluorescence intensity at the O 1s excitation.</p>}},
author = {{Ishihara, Tomoko and Tokushima, Takashi and Horikawa, Yuka and Kato, Masaru and Yagi, Ichizo}},
issn = {{1089-7623}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{10}},
pages = {{104101--104101}},
publisher = {{American Institute of Physics (AIP)}},
series = {{Review of Scientific Instruments}},
title = {{Development of a spectro-electrochemical cell for soft X-ray photon-in photon-out spectroscopy}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4997820}},
doi = {{10.1063/1.4997820}},
volume = {{88}},
year = {{2017}},
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