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Crystal Truncation Rods from Miscut Surfaces with Alternating Terminations
Guangxu Ju, Dongwei Xu, Carol Thompson +5
Miscut surfaces of layered crystals can exhibit a stair-like sequence of terraces having periodic variation in their atomic structure. For hexagonal close-packed and related crysta…
Dynamics of Atomic Steps on GaN (0001) during Vapor Phase Epitaxy
Guangxu Ju, Dongwei Xu, Carol Thompson +5
Images of the morphology of GaN (0001) surfaces often show half-unit-cell-height steps separating a sequence of terraces having alternating large and small widths. This can be expl…
In Situ Microbeam Surface X-ray Scattering Reveals Alternating Step Kinetics During Crystal Growth
Guangxu Ju, Dongwei Xu, Carol Thompson +5
The stacking sequence of hexagonal close-packed and related crystals typically results in steps on vicinal {0001} surfaces that have alternating A and B structures with different g…
High-energy coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy of polycrystal grains: first steps towards a multi-scale approach
Siddharth Maddali, Jun-Sang Park, Hemant Sharma +7
We present proof-of-concept imaging measurements of a polycrystalline material that integrate the elements of conventional high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy with coherent di…
Persistence of Island Arrangements During Layer-by-Layer Growth Revealed Using Coherent X-rays
Guangxu Ju, Dongwei Xu, Matthew J. Highland +7
Understanding surface dynamics during epitaxial film growth is key to growing high quality materials with controllable properties. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) usin…
Real-time X-ray Monitoring of the Nucleation and Growth of AlN Epitaxial Films on Sapphire (0001)
Guangxu Ju, Matthew J. Highland, Jeffrey A. Eastman +4
We report the results of x-ray scattering studies of AlN on c-plane sapphire during reactive radiofrequency magnetron sputtering. The sensitivity of in situ x-ray measurements allo…