Rocking curve imaging of high quality sapphire crystals in backscattering geometry

Backscattering; Lattice constants; Sapphire; X ray optics; Back reflection; Backscattering geometry; High resolution; Lattice spacing; Rocking curve width; Sapphire crystal; Sapphire single crystal; Stress-strain analysis; Single crystals

Abstract :

[en] We report on the characterization of high quality sapphire single crystals suitable for high-resolution X-ray optics at high energy. Investigations using rocking curve imaging reveal the crystals to be of uniformly good quality at the level of ∼10-4 in lattice parameter variations, δd/d. However, investigations using backscattering rocking curve imaging with a lattice spacing resolution of δd/d∼5×10-8 show very diverse quality maps for all crystals. Our results highlight nearly ideal areas with an edge length of 0.2-0.5 mm in most crystals, but a comparison of the back reflection peak positions shows that even neighboring ideal areas exhibit a relative difference in the lattice parameters on the order of δd/d=10- 20×10-8; this is several times larger than the rocking curve width. Stress-strain analysis suggests that an extremely stringent limit on the strain at a level of ∼100 kPa in the growth process is required in order to produce crystals with large areas of the quality required for X-ray optics at high energy. © 2017 Author(s).

Disciplines :

Space science, astronomy & astrophysics

Author, co-author :

Jafari, A.; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, JCNS and Peter Grünberg Institute PGI, JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, D-52425, Germany, ESRF- the European Synchrotron, Grenoble Cedex 9, F-38043, France, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Liège, Liège, B-4000, Belgium

Sergueev, I.; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, D-22607, Germany

Bessas, D.; ESRF- the European Synchrotron, Grenoble Cedex 9, F-38043, France

Klobes, B.; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, JCNS and Peter Grünberg Institute PGI, JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, D-52425, Germany

Roschin, B. S.; Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, Leninskii pr-t 59, Moscow, 119333, Russian Federation

Asadchikov, V. E.; Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, Leninskii pr-t 59, Moscow, 119333, Russian Federation, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, 1-2 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation

Alexeev, P.; Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, JCNS and Peter Grünberg Institute PGI, JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, D-52425, Germany, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, D-22607, Germany

Härtwig, J.; ESRF- the European Synchrotron, Grenoble Cedex 9, F-38043, France, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Chumakov, A. I.; ESRF- the European Synchrotron, Grenoble Cedex 9, F-38043, France

Wille, H.-C.; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, D-22607, Germany

Hermann, Raphael ; Université de Liège - ULiège

Language :

English

Title :

Rocking curve imaging of high quality sapphire crystals in backscattering geometry

Publication date :

2017

Journal title :

Journal of Applied Physics

ISSN :

0021-8979

eISSN :

1089-7550

Publisher :

American Institute of Physics, United States - New York

Volume :

121

Issue :

Pages :

044901

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