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

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

Important quantities

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

Analysis

• Scherrer grain size analysis
• Attenuation correction for sample shape

Theory

• DWBA