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Open AccessThe European strategy for accelerator-based photon science
The League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources (LEAPS), comprising 19 large-scale user facilities in 10 member and associated states, has put forward for the first time a European strategy for a trans...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Direct observation of surface oxidation of Rh nanoparticles on (001) MgO
The late transition metals have been studied extensively for decades because of their catalytic applications. Understanding the oxidation behaviour and the structure of the oxides of these metals are essential...
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Erratum: “In situ x-ray study of the γ- to α-Al2O3 phase transformation during atmospheric pressure oxidation of NiAl(110)”
We would like to take the opportunity to rectify the “Acknowledgements” section of our recently published research article “In situ x-ray study of the γ- to α-Al2O3 phase transformation during atmospheric pressur...
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In situ x-ray study of the γ- to α-Al2O3 phase transformation during atmospheric pressure oxidation of NiAl(110)
The oxidation in air of NiAl(110) was investigated in the temperature range from 870 °C–1200 °C by in situ x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. Oxidation at 870 °C and 1 bar oxygen leads to ...
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Initial corrosion observed on the atomic scale
Electrochemical corrosion creates problems for engineers, and destroys over 3% of the world's GDP. But decomposition processes can be useful too, for example in the formation of porous metals. For good or ill,...
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Mechanisms for the enhancement of the thermal stability of organic thin films by aluminum oxide cap** layers
We present a detailed study of the thermal stability of organic thin films of diindenoperylene encapsulated by sputtered aluminum oxide layers. We studied the influence of cap** layer thickness, stoichiometr...
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Self-organization of phthalocyanines on Al2O3 (1120) in aligned and ordered films
We studied the self-organization process of F16CuPc films (20–30 ML) on stepped Al2O3 (1120) substrates. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed a highly ordered layered structure with the molecules in a nearly u...
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The structure of ferrofluids in the vicinity of an interface with silicon
Neutron reflectometry and off-specular scattering is used for studying the ordering in colloidal solutions of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in the vicinity of a flat monocrystalline silicon wafer. The experiment...
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Method of Local Peak Functions for Reconstructing the Original Profile in the Fourier Transformation
We propose a method for reconstructing the original profile function in the one-dimensional Fourier transformation from the module of the Fourier transform function analytically. The major concept of the metho...
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Observation of five-fold local symmetry in liquid lead
The local point symmetry of the short-range order in simple monatomic liquids remains a fundamental open question in condensed-matter science. For more than 40 years it has been conjectured1,2,3,4 that liquids wi...
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X-ray reflectivity study of solution-deposited ZrO2 thin films on self-assembled monolayers: Growth, interface properties, and thermal densification
Thin films of ZrO2 were deposited from aqueous solution on Si(100) substrates precovered by functionalized alkyltrichlorosilane self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). The interface structure, thermal stability, and de...
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Correlation between density and structure. in boron nitride thin films by X-ray diffraction
ion=100 eV. Above E* ion the average density (deduced from X-ray reflectivity) shows a strong increase, indicating the sudden appearance of the cubic boron nitride phase consistent with the sp3 concentration ded...
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Surface density oscillations in disordered binary alloys: X-ray reflectivity study of Cu3Au(001)
Au(001) surface using Synchrotron radiation and show that the intensity distribution along the specular rod exhibits the same features as in the case of liquid metals which has been discussed in recent literat...
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Disordered surface sheets in solid matter near bulk instabilities
In this article, I review surface-sensitive X-ray scattering experiments using evanescent X-ray scattering and asymptotic Bragg scattering techniques which have been carried out in order to investigate the the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neutron Diffraction under Grazing Incidence: Recent Results from the Evanescent Wave Diffractometer
We report the first exit angle resolved magnetic neutron diffraction experiment under grazing incidence. The antiferromagnetic (100) Bragg reflection was excited under grazing incidence on a (001) MnF2 single cry...
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Phase Transitions Near Surfaces Studied By Grazing Incidence Diffraction of X-Rays
We review two different experiments in order to demonstrate the power of grazing incidence diffraction of x-rays in studying phase transitions near surfaces and to show that it is well suited to get informatio...
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Observation of neutron truncation rod scattering
We report measurements of neutron truncation rod scattering. This surface-induced neutron scattering has been observed at the (111) surface of a perfect Si single crystal by a high-resolution three-crystal sca...
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Attenuation of phonon scattering intensities by point defects
The cross section of the coherent, inelastic neutron scattering is characteristically decreased in the presence of defect-induced lattice distortions. This effect is in analogy to the attenuation of Bragg inte...
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Neutron-Zwischenreflex-Scattering from Point Defects in Crystals
Diffuse neutron or x-ray scattering close to the Bragg peaks (Huang scattering) and far away from Bragg peaks (Zwischenreflex-scattering) supplies detailed information on point defects and small agglomerates i...
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Depth-Profiling of Near-Surface Atomic Correlations by Total Reflection of Synchrotron Radiation
We report measurement of Bragg intensities obtained from an Fe3Al( \(1\bar 10\) 1 ...