Orientational analysis of atomic pair correlations in nanocrystalline indium oxide thin films.

ABSTRACT: The application of grazing-incidence total X-ray scattering (GITXS) for pair distribution function (PDF) analysis using >50 keV X-rays from synchrotron light sources has created new opportunities for structural characterization of supported thin films with high resolution. Compared with grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering, which is only useful for highly ordered materials, GITXS/PDFs expand such analysis to largely disordered or nanostructured materials by examining the atomic pair correlations dependent on the direction relative to the surface of the supporting substrate. A characterization of nanocrystalline In₂O₃-derived thin films is presented here with in-plane-isotropic and out-of-plane-anisotropic orientational ordering of the atomic structure, each s

SUBMITTER: Hoffman JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10833382 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature