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Absolute intensity calibration for carbon-edge soft X-ray scattering.

Thomas Ferron1, Devin Grabner1, Terry McAfee1

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, USA.

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
|November 4, 2020
PubMed
Summary

A new method calibrates resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSOXS) to absolute intensity using X-ray fluorescence as a standard. This enables quantitative analysis of nanostructures in soft matter, improving RSOXS measurements.

Keywords:
absolute scattering intensitydetector calibrationresonant soft X-ray scattering

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