Grazing-Incidence X-ray Scattering

(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France)

Troika I experiments

I.K. Robinson, J.L. Libbert, I.A. Vartanyants, J.A. Pitney, D.-M. Smilgies, D.L. Abernathy, and G. Grubel: "Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging of Silicon Oxide Growth", Phys. Rev. B. 60, 9965 (1999).

S.A. de Vries, P. Goedtkindt, S.L. Bennett, W.J. Huisman, M.J. Zwanenburg, D.-M. Smilgies, J.J. de Yoreo, W.J.P. van Enckevort, P. Bennema, and E. Vlieg: "Surface Atomic Structure of KDP Crystals in Aqueous Solution: An Explanation of the Growth Shape”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2229 (1998).

S.A. de Vries, P. Goedtkindt, W.J. Huisman , M.J. Zwanenburg, R. Feidenhans’l, S.L. Bennett, D.-M. Smilgies, A. Stierle, J.J. de Yoreo, W.J.P. van Enckevort, P. Bennema, and E. Vlieg: "X-ray diffraction studies of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals", J. Cryst. Growth 205, 202 (1999).

H. Requardt, F. Ya. Nad, P. Monceau, R. Currat, J.E. Lorenzo, D. Rideau, D. Smilgies, and G. Grübel : “Space- and time-resolved x-ray diffraction from pinned and sliding charge-density-waves in NbSe3”, J. Phys. IV France 9, Pr10-133 (1999).

D. Rideau, P. Monceau, H. Requardt, R. Currat, F. Nad, J.E.Lorenzo, S. Brazovskii, N. Kirova, D. Smilgies, and G. Grübel “Phase slippage at the interface: normal metal/sliding charge-density wave”, Physica B 280, 317-322 (2000)

A. Robert, G. Grübel, D. Smilgies, and J.-F. Legrand, "Synchrotron Radiation Induced Phase Transitions in a Polymer Film", in preparation.

Troika II experiments

D.-M. Smilgies, N. Boudet, and G. Grübel: "First Experiments on Troika II", ESRF-Newsletter No. 31, 14 (Sept. 98).

liquid surfaces

A.K. Doerr, M. Tolan, J.-P. Schlomka, T. Seydel, W. Press, D. Smilgies, and B.Struth: Observation of Capillary Waves on Liquid Thin Films from Mesoscopic to Atomic Length Scales, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3470 (1999).

C. Fradin, A. Braslau, D. Luzet, D. Smilgies, M. Alba, N. Boudet, K. Mecke, and J. Daillant: "Reduction in the Surface Energy of Liquid Interfaces at Short Length Scales", Nature 403, 871 (2000).

E.J. Samuelsen, D.W. Breiby, O. Konovalov, B.Struth, and D.-M. Smilgies, “In-situ studies of the transition from solution to solid film of poly(octylthiophene)”, Synth. Metals, in print.

C. Fradin, A. Braslau, D. Luzet, D. Smilgies, M. Alba, N. Boudet, K. Mecke, and J. Daillant: “Liquid-vapor interfaces at short length scales”, ESRF Highlights 2000, 38.

C. Alonso, F.Artzner, B. Suchod, M. Berthault., O. Konovalov, J. Pecaut, D. Smilgies, A. Renault: "Two- and Three-Dimensional Stacking of Chiral Alcohols", submitted.

polymer thin films

J.S. Gutmann, P. Müller-Buschbaum, D.W. Schubert, N. Stribeck, D. Smilgies, and M. Stamm: "Roughness Correlations in Ultrathin Polymer Blend Films" (Proceedings of SXNS–6), Physica B 283, 40 (2000).

P. Müller-Buschbaum, J.S. Gutmann, M. Wolkenhauer, J. Kraus, M. Stamm, D. Smilgies, W. Petry, "Solvent-induced Surface Morphology of Thin Polymer Films", Macromolecules 34, 1369 (2001).

crystalline organic thin films

D.-M. Smilgies, N. Boudet, B. Struth, Y. Yamada, and H. Yanagi: " Highly-Oriented Films of Aromatic Molecules for Applications in Molecular Electronics", ESRF Highlights 1999.

D.-M. Smilgies, N. Boudet, B. Struth, Y. Yamada, and H. Yanagi. “Highly oriented POPOP films grown on the KCl(001) surface”, J. Cryst. Growth 220, 88-95 (2000).

E.J. Kintzel, Jr., D.-M. Smilgies, J.G. Skofronick, S.A. Safron, D.H. Van Winkle, T.W. Trelenberg, E.A. Akhadov, and F.A. Flaherty: “Investigation of the initial growth of the aromatic molecule p-quaterphenyl on NaCl(001) J. Vac. Sci. Technol., accepted.

B. Krause, A.C. Dürr, K.A. Ritley, F. Schreiber, H. Dosch, and D. Smilgies: “On the coexistence of different polymorphs in organic epitaxy:  and  phase of PTCDA on Ag(111)”, submitted.

nanostructures

Ingo Kegel, T.H. Metzger, J. Peisl, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, D.-M. Smilgies: "Vertical Alignment of Multilayered Quantum Dots Studied by X-Ray Grazing-Incidence Diffraction", Phys. Rev. B 60, 2516 (1999).

J. Stangl, T, Roch, V. Holy, M. Pinczolits, G. Springholz, G. Bauer, I. Kegel, T.H. Metzger, J. Zhu, K. Brunner, G. Abstreiter, D. Smilgies, "Strain-induced Self-organized Growth of Nanostructures - from Step Bunching to Ordering in Quantum Dot Superlattices", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 18 (4), 2187-2192 (2000).

T.H. Metzger, I. Kegel, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, and D. Smilgies, “ “Nano-tomography” on self-assembled quantum dots”, ESRF Highlights 2000, 43-45.

Troika II – Invited Talks

D. Smilgies: “Structure of Thin Organic Films Studied with Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Techniques”, presented at: European Research Conferences, Series Fundamental Aspects of Surface Science: Structure and Dynamics of Organic and Biological Molecules at Interfaces, Castelvecchio Pastoli, Italy, September 3-8, 1999.

Workshops

“Surface Science 2000: Self-organization at interfaces and in thin films”, organized by D. Smilgies, J.-F. Legrand, S. Ferrer, and R. Felici, ESRF, Grenoble, France, February 11-12, 2000; see D. Smilgies: “Workshop on Surface Science at the ESRF”, Synchrotron Radiation News 13, 14 (2000).

Other papers based on measurements at the Troika II beamline

during 4/1998 and 5/2000

C. A. Lucas: “Atomic structure at the electrochemical interface”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 32, A198 (1999).

N.M. Markovic, B.N. Grgur, C. A. Lucas, and P.N. Ross: “Electrooxidation of CO and H2/CO mixtures on Pt(111) in acidic solutions”, J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 487 (1999).

J. Stangl, V. Holy, P. Mikulic, G. Bauer, I. Kegel, T.H. Metzger, O.G. Schmidt, C. Lange, K. Eberl: “Self-assembled carbon-induced germanium quantum dots studied by grazing-incidence small-angle scattering”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 3785 (1999).

V. Holy, J. Stangl, G. Springholz, M. Pinczolits, G. Bauer, I. Kegel, T.H. Metzger: “Lateral and vertical ordering of self-assembled PbSe quantum dots studied by high-resolution x-ray diffraction”, Physica B 283, 65 (2000).

I,Kegel, T.H. Metzger, A. Lorke, J.Peisl, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, J.M. Garcia, and P.M. Petroff, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1694 (2000).

I.Kegel, T.H. Metzger, A. Lorke, J.Peisl, J. Stangl, G. Bauer, K. Nordlund, W.V. Schoenfeld, and P.M. Petroff, Phys. Rev. B. B 63, 035318 (2001).

Z. Kovats, T.H. Metzger, J. Peisl, J. Stangl, M. Mühlberger, Y. Zhuang, F. Schäffler, and G. Bauer, “Investigation of -SiC precipitation in Si1-yCy epilayers by x-ray scattering at grazing incidence”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 3409 (2000).

J. Stangl, T. Roch, G. Bauer, I. Kegel, T.H. Metzger, O.G. Schmidt, K. Eberl, O. Kienzle, and F. Ernst: “Vertical correlation of SiGe islands in SiGe/Si superlattices: X-ray diffraction versus transmission electron microscopy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 3953 (2000).