Use of intermediate focus for grazing incidence small and wide angle x-ray scattering experiments at the beamline P03 of PETRA III, DESY

G Santoro; A Buffet; R Döhrmann; S Yu; V Körstgens; P Müller-Buschbaum; U Gedde; M Hedenqvist; S V Roth

doi:10.1063/1.4869784

Use of intermediate focus for grazing incidence small and wide angle x-ray scattering experiments at the beamline P03 of PETRA III, DESY

Rev Sci Instrum. 2014 Apr;85(4):043901. doi: 10.1063/1.4869784.

Authors

G Santoro¹, A Buffet¹, R Döhrmann¹, S Yu¹, V Körstgens², P Müller-Buschbaum², U Gedde³, M Hedenqvist³, S V Roth¹

Affiliations

¹ Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany.
² Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, James-Franck-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
³ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Fibre and Polymer Technology, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 24784620
DOI: 10.1063/1.4869784

Abstract

We describe the new experimental possibilities of the micro- and nanofocus X-ray scattering beamline P03 of the synchrotron source PETRA III at DESY, Hamburg (Germany), which arise from experiments with smaller beam sizes in the micrometer range. This beamline has been upgraded recently to perform new kinds of experiments. The use of an intermediate focus allows for reducing the beam size of microfocused hard X-rays while preserving a large working distance between the focusing elements and the focus position. For the first time, this well-known methodology has been employed to grazing incidence small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS/GIWAXS). As examples, we highlight the applications to in situ studies using microfluidic devices in GISAXS geometry as well as the investigation of the crystallinity of thin films in GIWAXS geometry.