Abstract
Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging (CXDI) was applied to reveal the structure of colloidal crystals. The colloidal sample was illuminated by a coherent x-ray beam through a 7 μm pinhole aperture. The resulting diffraction patterns contain several Bragg peaks and an additional interference structure between the peaks due to the coherent illumination of a finite part of the sample. The inversion of these diffraction patterns reveals the arrangement of colloidal particles in a face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice as well as defects in the form of stacking faults in the (111) planes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 224105/1-224105/6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 22 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |