Allows the study of thin polycrystalline or amorphous films; the grazing angle geometry (small angle of incidence) allows suppressing the contribution from the substrate. This can generally be used on samples tens of nanometers thick, and can identify multiple layers of different phases. Crystallite size information will be available from this diffraction data.
Pore size information will generally be available using Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) technique. Personally if I need information of 'surface atomic detail' I use XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy). Would need to have a more detailed understanding of your characterisation problems to fully understand if GIXRD can assist in this part
Allows the study of thin polycrystalline or amorphous films; the grazing angle geometry (small angle of incidence) allows suppressing the contribution from the substrate. This can generally be used on samples tens of nanometers thick, and can identify multiple layers of different phases. Crystallite size information will be available from this diffraction data.
Pore size information will generally be available using Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) technique. Personally if I need information of 'surface atomic detail' I use XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy). Would need to have a more detailed understanding of your characterisation problems to fully understand if GIXRD can assist in this part