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Reflection High-energy Electron Diffraction Study of Nanostructures: From Diffraction Patterns to Surface Pole Figure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Fu Tang
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Physics, Troy, New York, United States
Toh-Ming Lu
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Physics, Troy, New York, United States
Gwo Ching Wang
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Physics, 1C25 Science Center, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York, 12180, United States, 518 276 8387, 518 276 6680
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Abstract

In this report we present a brief overview of the growth of nanostructures by the oblique angle deposition where the nanostructures possess both out-of-plane and in-plane preferred orientations or a biaxial texture. The degree of preferred crystal orientations can be quantitatively determined from a method called “RHEED surface pole figure analysis” that we developed recently.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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