X-Ray-Standing-Wave Atom Location in Heteropolar Crystals and the Problem of Extinction
Author(s) -
J. R. Patel,
J. A. Golovchenko
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.50.1858
Subject(s) - excited state , physics , extinction (optical mineralogy) , lattice (music) , radiation , fluorescence , atomic physics , optics , crystal (programming language) , detector , condensed matter physics , computer science , acoustics , programming language
By monitoring the characteristic fluorescent radiation excited by x-ray standing waves we have been able to distinguish the two different kinds of lattice sites in a heteropolar crystal of GaAs. The strong extinction effects that mask the position-dependent fluorescent signal were minimized by adopting a suitable detector geometry.
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