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Understanding the behaviour of electrons inside a material provides many important clues to tune variety of properties of a material. The spectroscopic techniques based upon analysis of ejected photoelectrons from a material provide direct access to electronic states of that material. This chapter presents a quick introduction to photoelectron spectroscopy and few basic applications. Although there are many dedicated books and review articles on these techniques, we aim to provide the reader with a concise overview of the technique without involving complex details. A brief overview of theoretical techniques to compute electronic structure of material is also presented. We hope that this chapter will offer a simplified introduction of working and applications of photoelectron spectroscopic techniques.

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    E here refers to energy of the electron and \( \overrightarrow{E} \) to electric field between the hemispherical shells.

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    \( {E}_n=-\frac{13.6}{n^2} \).

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Kumar, J. (2018). Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Fundamental Principles and Applications. In: Sharma, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Characterization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92955-2_12

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