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Title: Reconstruction of evolving nanostructures in ultrathin films with X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography

Abstract

Fluorescence from an excited atom propagates as an outgoing spherical wave until it is scattered by inhomogeneities or other atoms nearby. An anisotropic intensity pattern, known as the fluorescence hologram, is created when this scattered wave interferes with the freely propagating wave. X-ray fluorescence holography focuses on holograms generated from crystals and gives information about their local atomic structures. Likewise, a waveguide can also generate fluorescence holograms as a result of the establishment of X-ray standing waves. We therefrom introduce the concept of X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography, where a nanostructured thin film by itself is an optical waveguide thus turning this holographic technique into an in-situ and time-resolved imaging probe for nanostructures in the film. A model-free reconstruction method was developed based on the dynamical theory. The performance of X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography is experimentally compared to conventional forward scattering techniques for thin films such as reflectivity and grazing-incidence small

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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1634846
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1647006; OSTI ID: 1656866
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Jiang, Zhang, Strzalka, Joseph W., Walko, Donald A., and Wang, Jin. Reconstruction of evolving nanostructures in ultrathin films with X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5.
Jiang, Zhang, Strzalka, Joseph W., Walko, Donald A., & Wang, Jin. Reconstruction of evolving nanostructures in ultrathin films with X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5
Jiang, Zhang, Strzalka, Joseph W., Walko, Donald A., and Wang, Jin. Wed . "Reconstruction of evolving nanostructures in ultrathin films with X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5.
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title = {Reconstruction of evolving nanostructures in ultrathin films with X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography},
author = {Jiang, Zhang and Strzalka, Joseph W. and Walko, Donald A. and Wang, Jin},
abstractNote = {Fluorescence from an excited atom propagates as an outgoing spherical wave until it is scattered by inhomogeneities or other atoms nearby. An anisotropic intensity pattern, known as the fluorescence hologram, is created when this scattered wave interferes with the freely propagating wave. X-ray fluorescence holography focuses on holograms generated from crystals and gives information about their local atomic structures. Likewise, a waveguide can also generate fluorescence holograms as a result of the establishment of X-ray standing waves. We therefrom introduce the concept of X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography, where a nanostructured thin film by itself is an optical waveguide thus turning this holographic technique into an in-situ and time-resolved imaging probe for nanostructures in the film. A model-free reconstruction method was developed based on the dynamical theory. The performance of X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography is experimentally compared to conventional forward scattering techniques for thin films such as reflectivity and grazing-incidence small},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Schematics of X-ray fluorescence holography (XFH) operation modes. a In the normal XFH mode1, an emitting atom (i.e. emitter) gives out a spherically outgoing X-ray fluorescence wave. An object wave is formed when this outgoing wave is scattered by a nearby atom (i.e. scatterer) and then interferes withmore » the unperturbed outgoing reference wave, producing a spatially distributed hologram. Lines in blue and gold colors represent waves of elastic and fluorescence energies, respectively. b In the inverse XFH mode, the exciting wave at the emitter is a result of interference of the unperturbed incident wave and the scattered incident wave from the scatterer. The hologram is constructed by scanning the incident wave and recording the integrated fluorescence intensity at a fixed detector position. c In the mixed-mode X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography (XWFH) at grazing-incidence and exit angles, X-ray standing waves are created within the waveguide for both the elastic and fluorescence energies. The intensity of fluorescence leaving the waveguide concentrates at discrete exit angles, producing a concentric cone-like hologram whose axis of rotation is perpendicular to the film surface. The forward elastic scattering is also modulated by the waveguide and its angular dependence is measured via grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS).« less

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