X-ray standing wave and reflectometric characterization of multilayer structures

Details X-ray standing wave and reflectometric characterization of multilayer structures X-ray standing wave and reflectometric characterization of multilayer structures

2001-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101230v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages RevTex, 10 eps figures embedded

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.63.245409

Microstructural characterization of synthetic periodic multilayers by x-ray standing waves have been presented. It has been shown that the analysis of multilayers by combined x-ray reflectometry (XRR) and x-ray standing wave (XSW) techniques can overcome the deficiencies of the individual techniques in microstructural analysis. While interface roughnesses are more accurately determined by the XRR technique, layer composition is more accurately determined by the XSW technique where an element is directly identified by its characteristic emission. These aspects have been explained with an example of a 20 period Pt/C multilayer. The composition of the C-layers due to Pt dissolution in the C-layers, Pt$_{x}$C$_{1-x}$, has been determined by the XSW technique. In the XSW analysis when the whole amount of Pt present in the C-layers is assumed to be within the broadened interface, it l eads to larger interface roughness values, inconsistent with those determined by the XRR technique. Constraining the interface roughness values to those determined by the XRR technique, requires an additional amount of dissolved Pt in the C-layers to expl ain the Pt fluorescence yield excited by the standing wave field. This analysis provides the average composition Pt$_{x}$C$_{1-x}$ of the C-layers .

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