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Liquid Surface Diffractometer
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The liquid surface diffractometer pictured at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory
Diffractometer Photograph
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Liquid Surface Reflectometer
In order to scatter from free liquid surfaces the incident
as well as the scattered beams need to be manipulated. For
a fixed X-ray or neutron source, the incident beam can be prepared by a monochromator that can be tilted by angle c to tilt the beam to any desired
angle with respect to the horizontal liquid surface.
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| The monochromator can be tilted either over an axis that
is perpendicular to the incident beam or over the normal to the Bragg
reflection scattering planes. In the latter case the relation between
the tilt angle chi and the angle of incidence alpha is given by:
sin(a) = l / (d sin(c))
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Schematic of the liquid surface reflectometer at Ames Laboratory.
Designed by T. Herrman (Ames Lab)
Reflectometer Photograph
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