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Small-angle X-ray scattering from GaN nanowires grown on Si(111) is studied experimentally and modeled by means of Monte Carlo simulations. It is shown that the scattering intensity at large wave vectors does not follow Porod's law…
Small-angle scattering (SAS) is a key experimental technique for analyzing nano-scale structures in various materials.In SAS data analysis, selecting an appropriate mathematical model for the scattering intensity is critical, as it…
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We survey the Si K edge structure in various absorbed Galactic low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) to study states of silicon in the inter- and circum-stellar medium. The bulk of these LMXBs lie toward the Galactic bulge region and all have…
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GISAXS is often used as a versatile tool for the contactless and destruction-free investigation of nanostructured surfaces. However, due to the shallow incidence angles, the footprint of the X-ray beam is significantly elongated, limiting…
Generic low-energy spectral features related to $d$-$d$ excitations in nearly cubic vanadium perovskites are predicted for the expected $L$-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements. Model Hamiltonian describing local…
We investigate theoretically the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the $K$ edge of Si on the basis of an ab initio calculation. We calculate the RIXS spectra with systematically varying transfered-momenta, incident-photon energy…
Exploiting small angle X-ray and neutron scattering (SAXS/SANS) on the same sample volume at the same time provides complementary nanoscale structural information at two different contrast situations. Compared with an independent…
Grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) is a scattering technique which allows one to characterize the structure of fluid interfaces down to the molecular scale, including the measurement of the surface tension and of the interface…
The SAXS (small angle X-ray scattering) technique has been used to determine the fundamental structure of conducting thin films fabricated by implanting gold ions into PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate) polymer. We present a brief review of the…
This paper introduces Spectral Incoherent Diffractive Imaging (SIDI) as a novel method for achieving dark-field imaging of nanostructures with heterogeneous oxidation states. With SIDI, shifts in photoemission profiles can be spatially…
We report on results from an experiment at the European XFEL where we measured the x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) spectrum of single crystal silicon with ultrahigh resolution. Compared to similar previous experiments, we consider a more…
We present a simple model to describe the lowest-subbands surface scattering in locally oxidized silicon nanowires grown in the [110] direction. To this end, we employ an atomistically scaled effective mass model projected from a…
This paper provides a brief overview of applications of advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques that take advantage of the resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) in the hard and tender x-ray range and have recently become available for…
The vortex matter in bulk type-II superconductors serves as a prototype system for studying the random pinning problem in condensed matter physics. Since the vortex lattice is embedded in an atomic lattice, small angle neutron scattering…