Abstract
Controlled synthesis of nanostructure ultrathin films is critical for applications in nanoelectronics, photonics, and energy generation and storage. The paucity of structural probes that are sensitive to nanometer-thick films and also capable of in-operando conditions with high spatiotemporal resolutions limits the understanding of morphology and dynamics in ultrathin films. Similar to X-ray fluorescence holography for crystals, where holograms are formed through the interference between the reference and the object waves, we demonstrated that an ultrathin film, being an X-ray waveguide, can also generate fluorescence holograms as a result of the establishment of X-ray standing waves. Coupled with model-independent reconstruction algorithms based on rigorous dynamical scattering theories, the thin-film-based X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography becomes a unique in situ and time-resolved imaging probe capable of elucidating the real-time nanostructure kinetics with unprecedented resolutions. Combined with chemical sensitive spectroscopic analysis, the reconstruction can yield element-specific morphology of embedding nanostructures in ultrathin films.
Highlights
Controlled synthesis of nanostructure ultrathin films is critical for applications in nanoelectronics, photonics, and energy generation and storage
An anisotropic intensity distribution of the fluorescence can be induced when the fluorescence is modulated by local environmental inhomogeneities near its emitting source due to interference of the fluorescence waves. This concept has been explored in the X-ray regime as the X-ray fluorescence holography (XFH)[1,2,3] for crystalline samples, where local atomic structures can be reconstructed from fluorescence holograms with subatomic spatial resolution
We illustrate the principle of XFH for a thin-film waveguide and demonstrate that when applied to a film consisting of fluorescence substances, it becomes an in situ and timeresolved imaging technique with sub-nanometer spatial resolution—X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography (XWFH)—for embedded nanostructures and their kinetics in the film
Summary
Controlled synthesis of nanostructure ultrathin films is critical for applications in nanoelectronics, photonics, and energy generation and storage. Coupled with model-independent reconstruction algorithms based on rigorous dynamical scattering theories, the thin-filmbased X-ray waveguide fluorescence holography becomes a unique in situ and time-resolved imaging probe capable of elucidating the real-time nanostructure kinetics with unprecedented resolutions. An anisotropic intensity distribution of the fluorescence can be induced when the fluorescence is modulated by local environmental inhomogeneities near its emitting source due to interference of the fluorescence waves This concept has been explored in the X-ray regime as the X-ray fluorescence holography (XFH)[1,2,3] for crystalline samples, where local atomic structures can be reconstructed from fluorescence holograms with subatomic spatial resolution.
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