Thursday, June 30, 2016

Reflectivity Resources: a guide to reflectivity resources available on-line

Liquid Surface Spectrometers 
X-rays
Europe
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Surface and Interface Science Group
  • Surface Diffraction Beamline suitable for GIXD from liquids
  • Soft Condensed Matter Group
  • ID10A TROIKA I+III TROIKA I accommodates GIXD studies on liquid surfaces
  • ID10B TROIKA II suitable for both vertical and horizontal scattering planes
  • Materials Science Group
  • ID15A/B High-energy scattering beamline accommodates a reflectometer suitable for liquid surfaces and buried interfaces: reference1 reference 2
  • North America
    Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Liquid Surface Spectrometer at X22-B, NSLS
  • Liquid Surface Spectrometer at X19-C, NSLS
  • Argonne National Laboratory: Liquid and Soft-Matter Surface Scattering Special Interest Group
  • Ames Laboratory horizontal diffractometer MUCAT, 6-ID-B, APS
  • Liquid Surface Spectrometer at CMC-XOR, 9-ID-B, APS
  • Liquid Surface Spectrometer at ChemMatCARS, 15-ID, APS
  • Neutron reflectometers
    Neutron Reflection and Neutron Reflectometers provides a list of instruments for neutron reflectometery, software available for data analysis, and some introductory guides to reflectometry. Compiled by Prof. Adrian Rennie.
    North America
    Canadian Neutron Beam Center
  • D3 Reflectometer


  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
    Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center
  • SPEAR (Surface Profile Analysis Reflectometer) -- horizontal surface reflectometer
  • Asterix: vertical surface reflectomter with polarization analysis


  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    NIST Center for Neutron Research
  • AND/R (Advanced Neutron Diffractometer/Reflectomter) ** reference
  • NG1 Cold neutron reflectometer with polarized beam option
  • NG7 Cold neutron reflectometer - horizontal sample geometry


  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Spallation Neutron Source
  • Liquids (horizontal surface) Reflectometer
  • Magnetism (vertical surface) Reflectometer
  • Europe
    Institut Laue-Langevin
  • ADAM (Advanced Diffractometer for the Analysis of Materials)
  • D17 Reflectometer ** reference
  • EVA (EVAnescent wave diffractometer)
  • FIGARO (Fluid Interfaces Grazing Angles ReflectOmeter) more info Installation planned for January 2008, commissioning in March 2008
  • Laboratoire Leon Brillouin
  • Eros: Time of Flight Reflectometer
  • Prism (Polarised Reflectomter for the Investigation of Surface Magnetism)Two-Axis Polarised Reflectometer with Polarisation Analysis
  • Hahn-Meitner Institute
  • V14 reflectometer, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin
  • Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) Munich
  • KWS 3This focussed, high-resolution SANS instrument will also be adaptable for (liquid surface) reflectometry
  • MARIA (MAgnetic Reflectometer with high Incident Angle
  • N-REX+Suitable for vertical or horizontal scattering planes, also works with an x-ray reflectomtery system, and capabilities for Spin-Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering (SERGIS).
  • REFSANS Reflectometer for the analysis of soft and fluid interfaces and surfaces
  • ISIS
  • CRISP and SURF
  • Australia
    Bragg Institute
  • PLATYPUS
  • Reflectivity practitioners
  • Mathias Losche and Biological Physics Group, Supramolecular Structures Lab, Canegie Mellon University
  • Peter Pershan's (X-Ray) Group Harvard University
  • Tim Salditt and Juergen Thieme's Group at the Institut fuer Roentgenphysik, University of Goettingen
  • R. K. Thomas and Group, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Oxford
  • Tools for computing and analyzing reflectivity
  • Reflective X-ray Optics page for David Windt's IMD tool (runs on IDL)
  • NCNR Reflectometry software from the NIST Center for Neutron Research

  • Parratt32 or the Reflectivity Tool software from the Hahn-Meitner-Institut
  • Motofit software for fitting x-ray and neutron reflectivity data developed at ANSTO, runs on Igor
  • Open source MATLAB code for profile structure reconstruction from x-ray or neutron reflectivity as described in "Iterative reconstruction of a refractive-index profile from x-ray or neutron reflectivity measurements," Thorsten Hohage, Klaus Giewekemeyer, Tim Salditt, Phys. Rev. E 77:051604 (2008)
  • Meetings
  • NSLS-II and NSLS Light Sources Directorate Planning Workshops at Brookhaven National Lab, various dates from 2008.01.10-2008.02.12
  • NSLS-II Liquid Interface Scattering: Report from the July 2007 workshop breakout session E. DiMasi, M. Fukuto, B. Ocko and M. Schlossman
  • Workshop on Scientific Opportunities in Soft Matter and Biophysics at NSLS-II: Summary September 5-6, 2003, Student Activity Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
  • Other tools
  • Datasqueeze software by Paul Heiney allows visualization and analysis of 2-D data. Mostly intended for SAXS, can also be useful for GID data.
  • Computing for Science and the Computation Lab at Institut Laue-Langevin offers software for data analysis and education
  • Software tools compiled by the Institut Laue-Langevin
  • Tools for IGOR users includes packages for analyzing reflectivity data and SANS data
  • World Directory of SANS Instruments
  • neutron@aps.anl.gov Listserve for folks interested in neutron scattering
  • Reference materials
  • X-ray Data Booklet from the Center for X-ray Optics and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (The little orange book!)
  • X-ray Interactions with Matter: optical properties of materials from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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  • "The Application of the Specular Reflection of Neutrons to the Study of Surfaces and Interfaces," J. Penfold, R. K. Thomas J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2 1369-1412 (1990).
  • "Principles and applications of grazing incidence X-ray and neutron scattering from ordered molecular monolayers at the air-water interface," Jens Als-Nielsen, Didier Jacquemain, Kristian Kjaer, Franck Leveiller, Meir Lahav and Leslie Leiserowitz Physics Reports 246(5) 251-313 (1994)
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