Specular and diffuse x-ray scattering from surfaces and interfaces

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5929570

Sanyal, M K

X-ray and neutron scattering studies of surfaces and interfaces have become increasingly popular over that last few year due to the recent developments in both scattering techniques and high intensity sources, particularly synchrotron x-ray sources. Although detailed characterization of any interface requires understanding of scattering both at small angles and in the (wide angle) Bragg reflection regime, as shall restrict ourselves here to discussing only the small angle region. Despite fundamental differences in the basic interactions between x-rays (or neutrons) with atoms, most of the analysis of our x-ray scattering results presented here can be used for neutron studies, with minor modifications. Although it should be mentioned here that current synchrotron x-ray sources are several orders of magnitude more intense than neutron sources and as a result for relatively smooth solid surface specular reflectivity can be measured down to 10{sup {minus}9} with x-rays where as for neutrons this value is {approximately} 10{sup {minus}6} before the measured intensity is buried with diffuse scattering and other background. As we shall discuss, this reduces the resolution with which one can determine density profile at an interface. The plan of this talk is as follows. After giving a brief outline of this method, we shall discuss out results on liquid surfaces first, and then we shall analyze specular and diffuse scattering data of multilayer interfaces. Finally we demonstrate a new method of anomalous reflectivity to determine electron density profiles of thin films in a model independent way.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5929570
• Report Number(s): BNL-46728; CONF-911277-1; ON: DE92005010
• Resource Relation: Conference: Solid state physics symposium, Bombay (India), 21-24 Dec 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
INTERFACES
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
SURFACES
BRAGG REFLECTION
CROSS SECTIONS
DWBA
LIQUIDS
NEUTRON DIFFRACTION
SCATTERING
X-RAY SOURCES
BORN APPROXIMATION
COHERENT SCATTERING
DIFFRACTION
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
RADIATION SOURCES
REFLECTION
X-RAY EQUIPMENT
665300* - Interactions Between Beams & Condensed Matter- (1992-)