Useful Links

Tutorials on other sites

GISAXS

• Detlef-M. Smilgies's GISAXS tutorial: An excellent and well-referenced introduction to the basic concepts inherent to GISAXS.
• gisaxs.de: Brief introduction to the theory of GISAXS.
• IsGISAXS Manual: Provides a complete description (including equations) of the GISAXS theory required to model data.
• A Basic Introduction to Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering P. Müller-Buschbaum DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-95968-7 (Chapter 3 in Applications of Synchrotron Light to Scattering and Diffraction in Materials and Life Sciences)
• Probing surface and interface morphology with Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Gilles Renaud, Rémi Lazzari, Frédéric Leroy, Surface Science Reports 2009, 64 (8), 255-380. doi: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2009.07.002
• Dynamics in thin films studied with nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation Mag. Marcel Sladecek, March 2005.

SAXS and SANS

• NCNR SANS Tutorial
  • A Tutorial on SANS from Polymers
  • SANS from Dilute Particle Systems
• Looking at nothing: A weblog about small-angle scattering

Crystallography

• X-Ray Protein Crystallography
• A. A. Pinkerton Why crystal structure analysis works: a one-dimensional crystallography teaching tool J. Appl. Cryst. 2015, 48, 901-905. doi: 10.1107/S1600576715007116
• CrystalWalk: Interactive web-demo allowing crystal unit cells to be explored.

F. Bardella, A. Montes Rodrigues and R. M. Leal Neto CrystalWalk: crystal structures, step by step J. Appl. Cryst. 2017, 50, 949-950. doi: 10.1107/S160057671700560X

Resources

• Online Dictionary of Crystallography: Provides definitions to many terms relevant to scattering.
• XRD resource page: Provides links to many resources for XRD and crystallography.

Tables and Data

X-ray

• X-ray data booklet: Tabulates fundamental properties of x-ray interactions with matter; also provides useful equations.
  • X-ray elements: Periodic table of x-ray properties.
• CXRO LBL x-ray interactions page: A simple web-tool for calculating the properties of x-ray interactions.
  • X-ray transmission for solids: Calculator.
  • X-ray atomic scattering factors: Periodic table of properties.
  • Properties of elements: f1 and f2, needed in SLD calc.
• CHESS x-ray properties
• NIST X-ray Database: Tabulation of Atomic Form Factors, Photoelectric Absorption and Scattering Cross Section, and Mass Attenuation Coefficients for Z = 1-92 from E = 1-10 eV to E = 0.4-1.0 MeV
• X-ray absorption edges: Periodic table of edges.
• Materials database: Searchable database for XRD of minerals.

Binding Energies

• Reevaluation of X-Ray Atomic Energy Levels J. A. BEARDEN and A. F. BURR Rev. Mod. Phys. 39, 125–142 (1967) DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.39.125
• Core-level binding energies in metals John C. Fuggle and Nils Mårtensson Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena Volume 21, Issue 3, 1980, Pages 275-281 doi: 10.1016/0368-2048(80)85056-0

Neutron

• Neutron data booklet: Tabulates fundamental properties of neutron interactions with matter; also provides useful equations.
• SLD calculator: NIST Center for Neutron Research calculator for predicting the neutron Scattering Length Density (SLD) for materials.

Electron

• NIST Stopping Power of Electrons

Software

See the Software page for a complete list of available software packages.

Community

• lightsources.org
• nanoHUB.org