Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-02-15
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
53 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
We have implemented the newly-introduced, coherence-based technique of x-ray near-field speckle (XNFS) at 8-ID-I at the Advanced Photon Source. In the near field regime of high-brilliance synchrotron x-rays scattered from a sample of interest, it turns out, that, when the scattered radiation and the main beam both impinge upon an x-ray area detector, the measured intensity shows low-contrast speckles, resulting from interference between the incident and scattered beams. We built a micrometer-resolution XNFS detector with a high numerical aperture microscope objective and demonstrate its capability for studying static structures and dynamics at longer length scales than traditional far field x-ray scattering techniques. Specifically, we characterized the structure and dynamics of dilute silica and polystyrene colloidal samples. Our study reveals certain limitations of the XNFS technique, which we discuss.
Lu Xinhui
Mochrie Simon GJ
Narayanan Srivatsan
Sandy A. R.
Sprung Michael
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