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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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[[Image:GISAXS refraction distortion.png|right|thumb|300px|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).]]
  
 
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.
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==Mathematics==
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The GISAXS refraction distortion shifts the data along <math>\scriptstyle q_z</math>, leaving <math>\scriptstyle q_x</math> unaffected. The amount of the shift is given by:
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[[Image:Lu GTSAXS-Figure5.png|center|thumb|300px|Figure from Lu. et al. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889812047887 doi: 10.1107/S0021889812047887 ''J. of Appl. Cryst.'' '''2013''', 46, 165]) showing the amount of distortion along ''q<sub>z</sub>'', for different conditions.]]
  
 
==Refraction Correction==
 
==Refraction Correction==
The GISAXS refraction distortion shifts the data along <math>\scriptstyle q_z</math>, leaving <math>\scriptstyle q_x</math> unaffected.  
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When computing theoretical scattering patterns, one must account for the refraction correction.
  
 
* Byeongdu Lee, Insun Park, Jinhwan Yoon, Soojin Park, Jehan Kim, Kwang-Woo Kim, Taihyun Chang, and Moonhor Ree [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma047562d Structural Analysis of Block Copolymer Thin Films with Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering] ''Macromolecules'' '''2005''', 38 (10), 4311-4323. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma047562d doi: 10.1021/ma047562d]
 
* Byeongdu Lee, Insun Park, Jinhwan Yoon, Soojin Park, Jehan Kim, Kwang-Woo Kim, Taihyun Chang, and Moonhor Ree [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma047562d Structural Analysis of Block Copolymer Thin Films with Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering] ''Macromolecules'' '''2005''', 38 (10), 4311-4323. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma047562d doi: 10.1021/ma047562d]

Revision as of 14:16, 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.

Mathematics

The GISAXS refraction distortion shifts the data along , leaving unaffected. The amount of the shift is given by:

Figure from Lu. et al. (doi: 10.1107/S0021889812047887 J. of Appl. Cryst. 2013, 46, 165) showing the amount of distortion along qz, for different conditions.

Refraction Correction

When computing theoretical scattering patterns, one must account for the refraction correction.

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