X-RAY-DIFFRACTION CHARACTERIZATION OF TERNARY ARTIFICIAL SUPERLATTICES

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GOLDFARB, I
ZOLOTOYABKO, E
SHECHTMAN, D
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[1] Department of Materials Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
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10.1063/1.354689
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Thin films of alternating Au, Ag, and Cu wedge-shaped metal layers were made by magnetron sputtering in order to develop a method for investigation of a multicomponent systems. X-ray-diffraction patterns of all as-deposited samples revealed satellites in the vicinity of (111) reflections, evidence of composition-modulated artificial superlattice formation. The experimental spectra are well explained by the kinematical diffraction theory for imperfect superlattices. Computer simulations have demonstrated extremely high sensitivity to the fluctuations DELTAH/H of the superlattice period H. As a result, a rapid and simple method of DELTAH/H determination is proposed.
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