Specular beam suppression and enhancement phenomena in the case of grazing-angle incidence X-rays backdiffraction by the crystal with stacking fault

Structural distortions of semiconducting silicon crystals caused by constant electric field

“…The moiré patterns are known to arise in interferometers, the reflecting crystal planes of which differ either by interplanar spacings or by their directions [4,5]. It was shown however [12] that moiré patterns may also arise in case of equal interplanar spacings and the same directions of planes, when entrance and exit faces of interferometer crystals have different directions. Hence, some structural distortions occur in silicon crystals under the action of electric field,-the planes are rotated and spacings between these planes changed.…”

An application of the grazing-angle incidence hard x-ray optical nanoscope in ultra-high density digital data read-out device

“…The GIXB is a high-resolution and non-destructive technique, which is possible to realize only if the Bragg angle is close to 90 degrees, and was first considered in 1985 (see English version [8,9] of origin papers, which concern the GIXB configuration for single crystals and very thin crystalline films). If the GIXB takes place in the conditions of the specular vacuum wave suppression mode [2,3], then the reflected wave (contrary to other existing x-ray diffraction methods) practically carries the information only about non-diffracting sub-surface reflectors (see Fig. 1).…”

“…B i θ θ = , where B θ is the kinematic Bragg angle. Practically, the energy of x-ray wave field is entirely back warded from the X-ROM's crystalline segments caused by the x-ray specular (mirror) wave suppression phenomenon [2]. Therefore, only the wave-vector …”

“…2 and e.g. papers [2][3][4][5]) is the radically new x-ray-based optical data storage technology with digital data density of one terabit per square centimeter of the storage medium surface. Digital data read-out procedure from such ultrahigh-density x-ray optical data storage media is performed via grazing-angle incident x-ray micro beam.…”

“…Presented theoretical paper is devoted to further evolution of concepts suggested in papers [2][3][4][5]. We present here a setup of grazing-angle incidence hard-x-ray nanoscope (GIXN, see Sec.…”