Persistent oscillations of x-ray speckles: Pt (001) step flow
- 19 September 2011
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 99 (12) , 121910
Abstract
We observed well-defined oscillations of speckle intensities from Pt (001) surfaces at high temperatures, persisting for tens of minutes. We used a model of hex-reconstructed terraces to show that the coherent x-rays reflected from the terraces retain their phases relative to the illumination boundary and the observed oscillations come from surface dynamics due to “step-flow” motion. Our results demonstrate a possibility that x-ray speckles can be applied to monitor the real-time evolution of surfaces.Keywords
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