Technical articles

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Scattering techniques

• SAXS/SANS
  • USAXS/USANS
  • CD-SAXS/RSANS
• WAXS
• GISAXS
  • X-ray waveguiding
  • GTSAXS
• GIWAXS
• Reflectivity
• Resonant scattering
  • RSoXS

Related techniques

• XPCS
• Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Kinds of scattering

• Form Factor
• Structure Factor
• Diffuse scattering
• Debye-Waller factor
• Scattering intensity

Scattering concepts

• Scattering
• Momentum transfer
• Fourier transform
• Lattice
• Unit cell
• Reciprocal-space
• Ewald sphere
• Integrated intensity

Important quantities

• Atomic scattering factors
• Scattering Length Density (SLD)
• Critical angle
• Refractive index
• Absorption length
• Properties of materials

Analysis

• Scherrer grain size analysis
• Ring graininess analysis (to determine grain count, grain size and size-distribution, crystallinity, etc.)
• Attenuation correction for sample shape

Theory

• Born Approximation
• DWBA