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)
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- 1634846
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- OSTI ID: 1647006; OSTI ID: 1656866
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- AC02-06CH11357
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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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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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5
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