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[[Image:GISAXS refraction distortion.png|right|thumb|400px|Illustration of GISAXS refraction distortion. The reciprocal-space scattering is a hexagonal array of peaks. However, these peaks are both shifted, and compressed/stretched along ''q<sub>z</sub>'', due to refraction. This effect is especially pronounced near the [[Yoneda]] (orange line).]]
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In [[GISAXS]], [[GIWAXS]], and other grazing-incidence techniques, the [[refractive index]] difference between the film and the ambient causes the incident and [[scattering|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 [[Tutorial:What_to_do_with_data|data interpretation]] more problematic.
 
In [[GISAXS]], [[GIWAXS]], and other grazing-incidence techniques, the [[refractive index]] difference between the film and the ambient causes the incident and [[scattering|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 [[Tutorial:What_to_do_with_data|data interpretation]] more problematic.
  

Revision as of 14:11, 4 November 2015

Illustration of GISAXS refraction distortion. The reciprocal-space scattering is a hexagonal array of peaks. However, these peaks are both shifted, and compressed/stretched along qz, due to refraction. This effect is especially pronounced near the Yoneda (orange line).

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.

Refraction Correction

The GISAXS refraction distortion shifts the data along , leaving unaffected.

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