Soft-X study of buried interfaces in stratified media

N. Mahne; A. Giglia; L. Sponza; A. Verna; S. Nannarone

doi:10.1117/12.888179

18 February 2011 Soft-X study of buried interfaces in stratified media

N. Mahne, A. Giglia, L. Sponza, A. Verna, S. Nannarone

Proceedings Volume 7995, Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications; 79951S (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888179
Event: Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 2010, Shanghai, China

Abstract

The performance of multilayer optics depends on the quality of the buried interfaces between materials, whose intermixing strongly affects their behavior. We present an experimental method to determine, in a non destructively way, the amount of material intermixing at interfaces of multilayer structures. The reflection mechanism is related to the build up in the multilayer of a standing wave field, whose peaks and the valleys move as a function both of wavelength and of incidence angle. Exploiting this fact it is possible to modulate the electric field inside the multilayer in order to have different parts of the multilayer structure excited at a different extent and in particular the buried interfaces regions. The excitation is directly proportional to the intensity of the electric field and to the concentration of a given element in the sample. The excitation can be detected with different techniques, f.i. electron core level photoemission, fluorescence, luminescence, total electron yield. The flexibility of the experimental apparatus of the BEAR beamline (Elettra Trieste, Italy) allowed us to study some important classes of layered structures in the soft X-ray energy range, using the above mentioned techniques together with the determination of the Bragg conditions through the measurement of the specular reflectivity. We demonstrate the possibility of obtaining quantitative information on the width of the intermixing region, strongly related to the interface roughness, through the comparison with a phenomenological model of the intermixing and a numerical simulation of the standing field inside the multilayer.

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N. Mahne, A. Giglia, L. Sponza, A. Verna, and S. Nannarone "Soft-X study of buried interfaces in stratified media", Proc. SPIE 7995, Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 79951S (18 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888179

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