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Title: Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis

Abstract

The complex nano-morphology of modern soft-matter materials is successfully probed with advanced grazing-incidence techniques. Based on grazing-incidence small- and wide-angle X-ray and neutron scattering (GISAXS, GIWAXS, GISANS and GIWANS), new possibilities arise which are discussed with selected examples. Due to instrumental progress, highly interesting possibilities for local structure analysis in this material class arise from the use of micro- and nanometer-sized X-ray beams in micro- or nanofocused GISAXS and GIWAXS experiments. The feasibility of very short data acquisition times down to milliseconds creates exciting possibilities forin situandin operandoGISAXS and GIWAXS studies. Tuning the energy of GISAXS and GIWAXS in the soft X-ray regime and in time-of flight GISANS allows the tailoring of contrast conditions and thereby the probing of more complex morphologies. In addition, recent progress in software packages, useful for data analysis for advanced grazing-incidence techniques, is discussed.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
  2. Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, Technische Universität München, Garching (Germany); cNanosystems Initiative Munich,, Munchen (Germany)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1209548
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IUCrJ
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2052-2525
Publisher:
International Union of Crystallography
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; grazing-incidence techniques; GISAXS; GIWAXS; resonant soft X-ray scattering; GISANS; morphology; soft matter

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Hexemer, Alexander, and Müller-Buschbaum, Peter. Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1107/S2052252514024178.
Hexemer, Alexander, & Müller-Buschbaum, Peter. Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252514024178
Hexemer, Alexander, and Müller-Buschbaum, Peter. Thu . "Advanced grazing-incidence techniques for modern soft-matter materials analysis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252514024178. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1209548.
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year = {Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
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