K α Emission Spectrum of Gaseous N2

1 March 1972

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics

Vol. 56 (5) , 2345-2349
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1677539

Abstract

The nitrogen Kα emission spectrum excited by electron bombardment of nitrogen gas was obtained on a single planar crystal spectrometer with photon counting. The experimental profile is in fair agreement with a calculated profile based on molecular orbital theory and the single vacancy states measured by x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Evidence is presented to suggest that some of the emission intensity on the high‐energy side of the main peak is due to ``resonance radiation.'' To fix the energy scale of the spectrum, the effective 2d spacing of the analyzing lead myristate crystal was experimentally determined.

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