Refraction distortion

In GISAXS, GIWAXS, and other grazing-incidence techniques, the refractive index difference between the film and the ambient causes the incident and scattered x-ray beams to be refracted. This extent of refraction depends on the incident and exit angles. Thus, the data that appears on an area detector in a grazing-incidence experiment is non-linearly distorted. This makes data interpretation more problematic.

See Also

• DWBA
• Simulating X-ray diffraction of textured films D. W. Breiby, O. Bunk, J. W. Andreasen, H. T. Lemke and M. M. Nielsen J. Appl. Cryst. 2008, 41, 262-271. doi: 10.1107/S0021889808001064
• Indexation scheme for oriented molecular thin films studied with grazing-incidence reciprocal-space mapping D.-M. Smilgies and D. R. Blasini J. Appl. Cryst. 2007, 40, 716-718. doi: 10.1107/S0021889807023382
• Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering from thin polymer films with lamellar structures - the scattering cross section in the distorted-wave Born approximation P. Busch, M. Rauscher, D.-M. Smilgies, D. Posselt and C. M. Papadakis J. Appl. Cryst. 2006, 39, 433-442. doi: 10.1107/S0021889806012337