scholarly journals Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction tomography for characterizing organic thin films

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther H. R. Tsai ◽  
Yu Xia ◽  
Masafumi Fukuto ◽  
Yueh-Lin Loo ◽  
Ruipeng Li

Characterization of thin films is of paramount importance for evaluating material processing outcomes/efficiency as well as establishing structure–property/performance relationships. This article introduces grazing-incidence diffraction tomography (GID tomography), a technique that combines grazing-incidence X-ray scattering and computed tomography to quantitatively determine the dimension and orientation of crystalline domains in thin films without restrictions on the beam coherence, substrate type or film thickness. This computational method extends the capability of synchrotron beamlines by utilizing standard X-ray scattering experiment setups.

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (38) ◽  
pp. 12623-12627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Ji Chen ◽  
Sheng-Ying Li ◽  
Xiao-Jun Liu ◽  
Rui-Peng Li ◽  
Detlef-M. Smilgies ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
Detlef-M. Smilgies

Recently, surface and thin-film studies using area detectors have become prevalent. An important class of such systems are lamellar thin films formed by small molecules, liquid crystals or semicrystalline polymers. Frequently, the lamellae align more or less parallel to the substrate. Such structures can be easily discerned by their characteristic X-ray scattering close to the incident plane. This paper describes how such patterns can be simulated, in order to extract morphological information about the thin film.


2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 3395-3405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byeongdu Lee ◽  
Jinhwan Yoon ◽  
Weontae Oh ◽  
Yongtaek Hwang ◽  
Kyuyoung Heo ◽  
...  

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 659-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Ishida ◽  
Akinori Kita ◽  
Kouichi Hayashi ◽  
Toshihisa Horiuchi ◽  
Shoichi Kal ◽  
...  

Thin film technology is rapidly evolving today, and the characterization of the thin film and its surface have become very important issue not only from scientific but also technological viewpoints. Although x-ray diffraction measurements have been used as suitable evaluation methods in crystallography studies, its application to the structural evaluation of the thin films, especially organic one having the low electron densities, is not easy due to the small amounts of scattering volume and the high obstructive scattering noise from the substrate. However, the x-ray diffraction measurements under grazing incidence will aid not only in overcoming the such problems but also in analyzing in-plane structure of the thin films. Therefore, so-called grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXD) has been recognized as one of the most powerful tools for the surface and thin film studies.


2010 ◽  
Vol 114 (24) ◽  
pp. 8033-8042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangwoo Jin ◽  
Tomoyasu Hirai ◽  
Byungcheol Ahn ◽  
Yecheol Rho ◽  
Kwang-Woo Kim ◽  
...  

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