MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung | Stuttgart
 
departments
dosch


HEMD instrument at ESRF



High Energy Micro Diffraction


Supervision:

Harald Reichert

Heisenbergstr. 3, D-70569 Stuttgart
Tel.: 0711-689-1927
Fax: 0711-689-1902

Instrument (Grenoble)
Tel.: +33-47688-2606

Introduction

In January 2005 the Department Dosch installed a new type of instrument for surface and interface scattering using high energy X-rays at the dedicated high energy beamline ID15A (ESRF, Grenoble). Employing a focused high energy X-ray beam the instrument allows to perform structural investigations of deeply buried interfaces as well as free surfaces.

Available scattering techniques include

    X-ray reflectivity

    Grazing angle diffraction

    Crystal truncation rod diffraction


The instrument allows to investigate

    Free surfaces (solid & liquid)

    Multilayered systems and films

    Solid-solid interfaces

    Solid-liquid interfaces

    Liquid-liquid interfaces

    Nanostructures


Applications include

    Studies of interfacial melting

    Structure of water at interfaces

    In-situ oxidation of nanoparticles

    Surface freezing in liquid binary metals

    Electrochemistry