A brief review of the history and use of the daresbury ;miyake' monochromator for surface science.
This paper celebrates the 21st anniversary of the plane-grating grazing-incidence monochromator, designed at Daresbury in 1974 and in almost continuous operation ever since. The order-sorting principles [Miyake, Kato & Yamashita (1969). Sci. Light (Tokyo), 18, 39-56] are described, along with the detail of the instrument's design, followed by the history of its use on three synchrotron radiation sources (NINA, TANTALUS and SRS). A selection of scientific highlights at the SRS is given, taken from some of the experimental programmes in which the author was involved, concentrating on tunable photon-energy photoemission studies of metallic alloys. Finally, the future prospects for vacuum UV spectroscopy for surface science are briefly discussed.
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