Morphology of buried interfaces in ion-assisted magnetron sputter deposited 11B4C-containing Ni/Ti multilayer neutron optics investigated by grazing incidence small angle scattering

Sjoerd Broekhuijsen, Naureen Ghafoor, Matthias Schwartzkopf +3

Multilayer neutron optics require precise control of interface morphology for optimal performance. In this work, we investigate the effects of different growth conditions on the in…