Fast development of the synchrotron facilities opens a new era in X-ray optics where the diffraction, spectroscopic and time-resolved methods are combined in one experiment. Near-X-ray absorption edges the strong magnetic and anisotropic effects to reveal itself. As a result, the X-ray reflectivity method has acquired new possibilities: in previous times it gave the information only about the electronic density profiles in thin films, but nowadays it detects the magnetic and electronic depth-profiles. The theoretical foundations of the method need to be developed accordingly. The textbook presents the first systematic exposition of the new X-ray optics, including the effects of anisotropy in X-rays scattering near the absorption edges or nuclear resonance (Mössbauer) scattering. The book may be useful for students and postgraduates of physical specialties, as well as for researchers of magnetic multilayers conducting experiments with synchrotron radiation.
Dr Marina Andreeva was born in Leningrad, USSR in 1944. She spent some of her school years in Samara and Vladivostok (USSR). She graduated from school in Tumen' (Siberia, USSR) in 1963, and from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) (USSR) in 1969, obtained her PhD degree in 1973 and Doctor of Science degree in 1991. She currently holds the position of chief researcher at the Chair of Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics, MSU. The research area includes coherent effects in Mössbauer scattering, X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity, magnetic multilayer investigations, and synchrotron nuclear resonance scattering experiments. She has been a visiting scientist in Hungary, Poland, India and Sweden. She has participated in several experimental sessions at synchrotrons in France, Germany and Japan and presented reports at many international conferences. She has 53 years of experience in scientific and pedagogical work, and has published 14 study guides and monographs (in Russian), and more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is married and has two grown-up children and 5 grandchildren.
