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Hafner A, Costa L, Kourousias G, Bonanni V, Žižić M, Stolfa A, Bazi B, Vincze L, Gianoncelli A. An innovative in situ AFM system for a soft X-ray spectromicroscopy synchrotron beamline. Analyst 2024; 149:700-706. [PMID: 38054815 DOI: 10.1039/d3an01358h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
Abstract
Multimodal imaging and spectroscopy like concurrent scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) are highly desirable as they allow retrieving complementary information. This paper reports on the design, development, integration and field testing of a novel in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) instrument for operation under high vacuum in a synchrotron soft X-ray microscopy STXM-XRF end-station. A combination of μXRF and AFM is demonstrated for the first time in the soft X-ray regime, with an outlook for the full XRF-STXM-AFM combination.
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- Aljoša Hafner
- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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- Centre de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS UMR 5048 - UM - INSERM U 1054, 29 rue de Navacelles 34090 Montpellier, France
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, SS 14 km 163, 5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
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Naumenko D, Burian M, Marmiroli B, Haider R, Radeticchio A, Wagner L, Piazza L, Glatt L, Brandstetter S, Dal Zilio S, Biasiol G, Amenitsch H. Implication of the double-gating mode in a hybrid photon counting detector for measurements of transient heat conduction in GaAs/AlAs superlattice structures. J Appl Crystallogr 2023; 56:961-966. [PMID: 37555215 PMCID: PMC10405594 DOI: 10.1107/s1600576723004302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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Understanding and control of thermal transport in solids at the nanoscale are crucial in engineering and enhance the properties of a new generation of optoelectronic, thermoelectric and photonic devices. In this regard, semiconductor superlattice structures provide a unique platform to study phenomena associated with phonon propagations in solids such as heat conduction. Transient X-ray diffraction can directly probe atomic motions and therefore is among the rare techniques sensitive to phonon dynamics in condensed matter. Here, optically induced transient heat conduction in GaAs/AlAs superlattice structures is studied using the EIGER2 detector. Benchmark experiments have been performed at the Austrian SAXS beamline at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste operated in the hybrid filling mode. This work demonstrates that drifts of experimental conditions, such as synchrotron beam fluctuations, become less essential when utilizing the EIGER2 double-gating mode which results in a faster acquisition of high-quality data and facilitates data analysis and data interpretation.
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- Denys Naumenko
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
- DECTRIS Ltd, Taefernweg 1, Baden-Daettwil 5405, Switzerland
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
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- DECTRIS Ltd, Taefernweg 1, Baden-Daettwil 5405, Switzerland
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- DECTRIS Ltd, Taefernweg 1, Baden-Daettwil 5405, Switzerland
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- DECTRIS Ltd, Taefernweg 1, Baden-Daettwil 5405, Switzerland
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- CNR-IOM – Istituto Officina dei Materiali, SS 14, km 163.5, Basovizza (Trieste) 34149, Italy
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- CNR-IOM – Istituto Officina dei Materiali, SS 14, km 163.5, Basovizza (Trieste) 34149, Italy
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, Graz 8010, Austria
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