X-ray imaging of polycrystalline materialsa)

Abstract

A novel method yielding simultaneous information about location and orientation of the crystallites in a polycrystalline specimen has been developed and succesfully applied to the investigation of thin diamond films deposited on silicon. The experiment uses the parallel beam from a synchrotron radiation source and a microchannel plate as collimator in front of an image plate detector. Exposure times of only a few minutes could be realized. The spatial resolution was 0.375 mm but can easily be improved.