scholarly journals Application of Single and Dual Multilayer Optics for Powder X-Ray Diffraction

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Scott T. Misture

The performance of parallel beam multilayer optics, including a parabolic multilayer Osmic MaxFlux GO-13N and a flat custom multilayer, was evaluated experimentally and compared to Bragg-Brentano and traditional ‘‘parallel beam’’ or ‘‘thin film’’ optical geometries. A novel arrangement of a parabolic multilayer in the incident beam with a flat multilayer in the diffracted beam functioning as an analyzer crystal was proven effective for powder diffraction applications. The dual-optic configuration improves resolution while eliminating sample displacement and transparency errors as expected for a configuration with equatorial divergence below 100 arcseconds. Fundamental parameters fitting showed that the parabolic multilayer can be accurately modeled using a constant Gaussian function, while a long parallel-plate soller collimator requires a constant hat function. No additional convolutions are necessary for the diffracted-beam flat multilayer because of the lower acceptance angle.

2007 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Goryczka ◽  
Grzegorz Dercz ◽  
Lucjan Pająk ◽  
Eugeniusz Łągiewka

Grazing incident X-ray diffraction technique was applied to determine the influence of incident beam angle (α angle) on structural parameters as well as peak profile. X-ray diffraction patterns were registered in asymmetrical geometry, in which a parallel beam was formed by Soller and divergence slits. Lowering of the α angle results in accuracy decrease of lattice parameters as well as in significant broadening of a half-width of X-ray diffraction line.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Mitsunaga ◽  
Mari Saigo ◽  
Go Fujinawa

A recently developed Rigaku parallel-beam X-ray diffraction system equipped with a parabolic graded-multilayer mirror in the incident beam and a parallel-slits analyzer in the diffracted beam was used for precision high-temperature diffraction studies. The lattice parameters a and c of α-Al2O3 at room temperature and up to 1473 K were determined with precision in the range of 0.6–7.3×10−5. The thermal expansion coefficients for a and c agreed with literature values to better than 3%. The system was used successfully also to determine the Debye characteristic temperature of Si and to study structural phase transition of LaCoO3 from rhombohedral at room temperature to cubic at 1700 K.


1995 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schuster ◽  
H. Göbel

Periodic multilayers are ideally suited as high-reflectivity and wide-bandwidth Bragg reflectors. Their period can be matched laterally to the incidence angle so that for all points on the reflector, Bragg reflection is obtained for the same wavelength. Three major types of laterally graded multilayer optics were appJied to X-ray diffraction: (i) Parabolically curved multilayer mirrors were used to convert divergent radiation emerging from an X-ray source into a parallel beam. The parallel beam was applied in powder diffraction, grazing incidence diffraction, reflectometry, high-resolution diffraction, and protein crystallography, (ii) Elliptically curved multilayer mirrors focused the divergent radiation from the source into a line on the sample or detector. The high brilliance and small dimension of the focused beam make this mirror type suited for transmission diffractometry of capillary and fiber specimens, (iii) Planar multilayer mirrors were employed in divergent-beam optics. In Bragg-Brentano diffractometers, this mirror type can serve as a compact incident-beam monochromator for removing Kβ lines and Bremsstrahlung.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Welzel ◽  
Eric J. Mittemeijer

The microstructure of materials is generally, macroscopically, anisotropic and/or inhomogeneous. Traditional diffraction analyses do not take into account this anisotropy and/or inhomogeneity of microstructural features. Thus obtained results can be incomplete, ambiguous, or even erroneous. In this work instrumental requirements (application of parallel beam diffractometers with X-ray lenses or X-ray mirrors and parallel-plate collimators in the laboratory and at synchrotron beam lines) and methodological approaches for the diffraction analysis of anisotropic and inhomogeneous microstructures have been discussed and have been illustrated on the basis of two experimental examples: analysis of the anisotropic nature of the structural imperfection of a sputterdeposited Ti3Al layer and analysis of the anisotropic and inhomogeneous elastic grain interaction in a sputter-deposited Ni layer.


2003 ◽  
Vol 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghai Wang ◽  
David T. Johnson ◽  
Byron F. McCaughey ◽  
J. Eric Hampsey ◽  
Jibao He ◽  
...  

AbstractPalladium nanowires have been electrodeposited into mesoporous silica thin film templates. Palladium continually grows and fills silica mesopores starting from a bottom conductive substrate, providing a ready and efficient route to fabricate a macroscopic palladium nanowire thin films for potentially use in fuel cells, electrodes, sensors, and other applications. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicate it is possible to create different nanowire morphology such as bundles and swirling mesostructure based on the template pore structure.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Banko ◽  
Phillip M. Maffettone ◽  
Dennis Naujoks ◽  
Daniel Olds ◽  
Alfred Ludwig

AbstractWe apply variational autoencoders (VAE) to X-ray diffraction (XRD) data analysis on both simulated and experimental thin-film data. We show that crystal structure representations learned by a VAE reveal latent information, such as the structural similarity of textured diffraction patterns. While other artificial intelligence (AI) agents are effective at classifying XRD data into known phases, a similarly conditioned VAE is uniquely effective at knowing what it doesn’t know: it can rapidly identify data outside the distribution it was trained on, such as novel phases and mixtures. These capabilities demonstrate that a VAE is a valuable AI agent for aiding materials discovery and understanding XRD measurements both ‘on-the-fly’ and during post hoc analysis.


1988 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung-Yu Liu ◽  
Peng-Heng Chang ◽  
Jim Bohlman ◽  
Hun-Lian Tsai

AbstractThe interaction of Al and W in the Si/SiO2/W-Ti/Al thin film system is studied quantitatively by glancing angle x-ray diffraction. The formation of Al-W compounds due to annealing is monitored by the variation of the integrated intensity from a few x-ray diffraction peaks of the corresponding compounds. The annealing was conducted at 400°C, 450°C and 500°C from 1 hour to 300 hours. The kinetics of compound formation is determined using x-ray diffraction data and verified by TEM observations. We will also show the correlation of the compound formation to the change of the electrical properties of these films.


1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 308-311
Author(s):  
Li Chaorong ◽  
Mai Zhenhong ◽  
Cui Shufan ◽  
Zhou Junming ◽  
Yutian Wang

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