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Development of a Numerical Procedure for Determining the Depth Profiles of X-Ray Diffraction Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Xiaojing Zhu  and
Paul Predecki
Xiaojing Zhu
Affiliation:
Engineering Dept., University of Denver Denver, CO 80208, USA
Paul Predecki
Affiliation:
Engineering Dept., University of Denver Denver, CO 80208, USA
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Abstract

A numerical procedure is described and demonstrated for determining z-profiles from measured τ-profiles of diffraction data such as may be obtained by grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXD). The z-profile was approximated by a piece wise linear function and the problem of solving the integral equation for the z-profile was thus converted to one of solving a set of linear equations. With a sufficient number of the linear pieces, the z-pTofile could be accurately determined. The procedure and its sensitivity to data errors was tested with several arbitrarily chosen known functions. It was found that when errors were introduced into either the τ-profile or the sample thickness D the resulting z-profiles become oscillatory.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 37: Forty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 2-6, 1993 , 1993 , pp. 197 - 203
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1993

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