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

Jiang, Zhang; Strzalka, Joseph W.; Walko, Donald A.; Wang, Jin

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5

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

Journal Article · 24 June 2020 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16980-5 · OSTI ID:1634846

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source

Controlled synthesis of nanostructure ultrathin films is critical for applications in nanoelectronics, photonics, and energy generation and storage. The paucity of structural probes that are sensitive to nanometer-thick films and also capable of in-operando conditions with high spatiotemporal resolutions limits the understanding of morphology and dynamics in ultrathin films. Similar to X-ray fluorescence holography for crystals, where holograms are formed through the interference between the reference and the object waves, we demonstrated that an ultrathin film, being an X-ray waveguide, can also generate fluorescence holograms as a result of the establishment of X-ray standing waves. Coupled with model-independent reconstruction algorithms based on rigorous dynamical scattering theories, the thin-film-based X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography becomes a unique in situ and time-resolved imaging probe capable of elucidating the real-time nanostructure kinetics with unprecedented resolutions. Combined with chemical sensitive spectroscopic analysis, the reconstruction can yield element-specific morphology of embedding nanostructures in ultrathin films.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1634846

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1647006; OSTI ID: 1656866

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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Country of Publication:: United States

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