Abstract

Although the theory describing the production of x rays from relativistic particles has been known for some forty years, x rays from electron synchrotrons and storage rings have not been routinely available until the last few years. These broadband, extremely intense, and collimated sources of x rays have made possible new and exciting studies heretofore untried. One such area is the scattering of x rays at angles near normal incidence. There have been studies carried out in the laboratory at near normal incidence, but these have been confined to the precise determination of d-spacings and strain in several prototypical systems.

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