Determination of the real structure of artificial and natural opals on the basis of three-dimensional reconstructions of reciprocal space

A.A. Eliseev, D.F. Gorozhankin, K.S. Napolskii, A.V. Petukhov, N.A. Sapoletova, A.V. Vasilieva, N.A. Grigoryeva, A.A. Mistonov, D.V. Belov, W.G. Bouwman, K. Kvashnina, D.Y. Chernyshov, A.A. Bosak, S.V. Grigoriev

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Abstract

The distribution of the scattering intensity in the reciprocal space for natural and artificial opals has been reconstructed from a set of small-angle X-ray diffraction patterns. The resulting three-dimensional intensity maps are used to analyze the defect structure of opals. The structure of artificial opals can be satisfactorily described in the Wilson probability model with the prevalence of layers in the fcc environment. The diffraction patterns observed for a natural opal confirm the presence of sufficiently long unequally occupied fcc domains.
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)272-277
Number of pages6
JournalJETP Letters
Volume90
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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