Everything about Photoionization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PhotoionizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Comprehensive study of the low-temperature oxidation chemistry by synchrotron photoionization mass spectrometry and gas chromatographyInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Complete scattering experimentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Hartree-Slater subshell photoionization cross-sections at 1254 and 1487 eVCited 5,893 times
5. Go sideways: Photoelectrochemical processA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Rydberg ionization spectroscopyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Hartree-Slater subshell photoionization cross-sections at 1254 and 1487 eV

  J.H. Scofield · 1976 · Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena · 5,893 citations

• Atomic subshell photoionization cross sections and asymmetry parameters: 1 ⩽ Z ⩽ 103

  J.J. Yeh, I. Lindau · 1985 · Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables · 4,867 citations

• Atomic Data for Astrophysics. II. New Analytic FITS for Photoionization Cross Sections of Atoms and Ions

  D. A. Verner, G. J. Ferland, K. T. Korista · 1996 · The Astrophysical Journal · 1,894 citations

• The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas

  Robert P. C. Wiersma, Joop Schaye, Britton D. Smith · 2009 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 889 citations

• Photoionization from Outer Atomic Subshells. A Model Study

  John W. Cooper · 1962 · Physical Review · 847 citations

• Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization: An Ionization Method for Liquid Chromatography−Mass Spectrometry

  Damon B. Robb, Thomas R. Covey, Andries P. Bruins · 2000 · Analytical Chemistry · 749 citations

• Electron localization following attosecond molecular photoionization

  G. Sansone, F. Kelkensberg, J. F. Pérez-Torres · 2010 · Nature · 707 citations

• Suppressing the formation of dwarf galaxies via photoionization

  G. Efstathiou · 1992 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 664 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Comprehensive study of the low-temperature oxidation chemistry by synchrotron photoionization mass spectrometry and gas chromatography

  Qiang Xu, Bingzhi Liu, Weiye Chen · 2022 · Combustion and Flame · 134 citations

• Measuring the photoionization rate, neutral fraction, and mean free path of H i ionizing photons at 4.9 ≤ z ≤ 6.0 from a large sample of XShooter and ESI spectra

  Prakash Gaikwad, Martin G Haehnelt, Fredrick B Davies · 2023 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 91 citations

• Combined effects of hydrostatic pressure and electric field on the donor binding energy, polarizability, and photoionization cross-section in double GaAs/Ga$$_{1-x}$$Al$$_{x}$$As quantum dots

  Ayoub Ed-Dahmouny, Ahmed Sali, Najia Es-Sbai · 2022 · The European Physical Journal B · 84 citations

• Enhanced Coverage and Sensitivity of Imprint DESI Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Plant Leaf Metabolites by Post-photoionization

  Liutian Wu, Keke Qi, Chengyuan Liu · 2022 · Analytical Chemistry · 56 citations

• Photodissociation and photoionization of molecules of astronomical interest

  H. R. Hrodmarsson, E. F. van Dishoeck · 2023 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 54 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Complete scattering experimentsAlbert Crowe · 2001
• 📕NBS measurement servicesL. Randall Canfield · 1987
• Molecules and Clusters in Intense Laser FieldsJan Posthumus · 2001
• Photoionization and Other Probes of Many Electron InteractionsF. Wuilleumier · 1976
• Vacuum ultraviolet photoionization and photodissociation of molecules and clustersCheuk-Yiu Ng · 1991
• 📕Atomic photoeffectM. Ya Amusia · 1990
• Photoionization and photodetachmentCheuk-Yiu Ng · 2000
• Photodissociation and photoionizationK. P. Lawley · 1985

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