Dear Paritosh,
Thanks for your effort and time, I appreciate it. There is no experimental fault for the substrate peak. This was importing problem of xrayutitlities itself. Please see the attached picture for clarity. If I just plot using the raw data, it is fine. I found where the problem is. In the .ras file there are three columns: 2theta, counts and attenuator normalization factor. If you look the third column (attached) they are normalized with the number around 45. When we plot, we need to multiply column 2 and 3 to get the total counts. I guess, this is not included in xrayutilities and this is why we see three bumbs if you just plot 2nd cloumn. I already informed Dominik about this.
Regarding the second strong peak, yes, they are coming from different domain and the fringes are suppressed because of it’s higher thickness nearly 100 nm and also probably bit rough.
Regards,
Rajesh
From: Paritosh Wadekar <par...@gm...>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2024 4:57 PM
To: Dutta,Rajesh <rd...@dr...>
Subject: Re: [Xrayutilities-users] XRD-Simulation needs elastic parameters
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Thanks for the clarification. Well attached is a ppt with some of my thoughts about your experimental data. Totally up to you if you want to use it or not.
Regards
Paritosh
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 2:56 AM Dutta,Rajesh <rd...@dr...<mailto:rd...@dr...>> wrote:
Hi Paritosh,
No, it was MBE.
Thanks, Rajesh
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Sent: Friday, August 23, 2024 5:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Xrayutilities-users] XRD-Simulation needs elastic parameters
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Hello Rajesh,
Interesting fittings but if I am right you have deposited your thin films using pulsed laser deposition right ?
Paritosh
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 6:18 PM Dutta, Rajesh via xrayutilities-users <xra...@li...<mailto:xra...@li...>> wrote:
Dear Dominik,
Many thanks for the fruitful hints. It is doable somehow even though it is orthorhombic system on top of cubic. Luckily, our SrFeO2.5 (5.6, 5.65, 15.7A) can be treated as pseudocubic system (rotating 45 deg around c-axis). With this setting a,b axes of SrFeO2.5 become like cubic SrTiO3(3.905A). However, I had to manually build both the SrTiO3 and SrFeO2.5 to match the c-axis and to incorporate elastic constants as well. Please have a look at the attached figure (simulation and experimental data). Let me know your thoughts.
Besides that, I have questions: (1) Only multibeam kinematical model takes all the reflections using “surface_hkl=(0,0,1)” where others take only one given (H, K, L). Is there any way to make a list for (H,K,L) so that other model can calculate the XRD for several (H,K,L). I tried to give a list but did not work. (2) Is the relaxation parameter treated as strain/stress here? If not, how can I input in-plane stress or strain? I will try to fit the data and let you know the outcomes.
Thanks again,
Bye,
Rajesh
From: Dominik Kriegner <dom...@gm...<mailto:dom...@gm...>>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2024 5:46 AM
To: Dutta,Rajesh <rd...@dr...<mailto:rd...@dr...>>
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Subject: Re: [Xrayutilities-users] XRD-Simulation needs elastic parameters
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Dear Rajesh,
Is there a standardized way the elastic parameters are provided in the cif files? If so one could update the parser to allow to read it properly.
But likely it's better you define the materials manually. I recommend you to look at
https://xrayutilities.sourceforge.io/examples.html#using-the-materials-subpackage
I am however afraid I did not include some documentation on how to add the elastic parameters. For this maybe best look at how it is done for the predefined materials in the code
https://github.com/dkriegner/xrayutilities/blob/main/lib/xrayutilities/materials/predefined_materials.py
Finally I must warn you that I do believe that the pseudomorphic stack was never tested for orthorhombic materials on top of a cubic material. I am almost certain it won't exactly do what you expect.
You might be able to help yourself and distort the material as you see fit, but I would not rely on the pseudomorphicstack code to work without changes!
cheers
Dominik
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 2:21 AM Dutta, Rajesh via xrayutilities-users <xra...@li...<mailto:xra...@li...>> wrote:
Dear xrayutilities users,
I am very new to this tool. I am trying to build a layer stack of Sr2Fe2O5 (ortho) on top of SrTiO3 substrate (cubic). I managed to construct the model using cif files. However, in the cif file seemingly it is not possible to incorporate cij (elastic parameters). Therefore, the fitting XRD gives an error saying “layer’ argument needs elastic parameters.
How to solve this issue while importing cif files. I attach few parts of the code below:
# global parameters
wavelength = xu.wavelength('CuKa1')
offset = -0.00 # angular offset of the zero position of the data
# set up LayerStack for simulation: SrTiO3/SrFeO2.5
Sr = xu.materials.elements.Sr<http://xu.materials.elements.sr/>
Ti = xu.materials.elements.Ti
O = xu.materials.elements.O
Fe = xu.materials.elements.Fe
STO = xu.materials.Crystal.fromCIF(os.path.join("data", "STO.cif"))
SFO = xu.materials.Crystal.fromCIF(os.path.join("data", "Sr2Fe2O5-along.cif"))
lSTO = xu.simpack.Layer(STO, inf)
lSFO = xu.simpack.Layer(SFO, 800, relaxation=0)
pstack = xu.simpack.PseudomorphicStack001('list', lSTO, lSFO)
# set up simulation object
thetaMono = arcsin(wavelength/(2 * xu.materials.Ge.planeDistance(2, 2, 0)))
Cmono = cos(2 * thetaMono)
dyn = xu.simpack.DynamicalModel(pstack, I0=1.5e5, background=0,
resolution_width=2e-3, polarization='both',
Cmono=Cmono)
fitmdyn = xu.simpack.FitModel(dyn)
fitmdyn.set_param_hint('SFO_a', vary=True, min=15.7, max=15.8)
fitmdyn.set_param_hint('STO_a', vary=True, min=3.90, max=3.91)
fitmdyn.set_param_hint('resolution_width', vary=True)
params = fitmdyn.make_params()
I tried to build the materials using Crystal class and SGLattice, there I can define elastic tensors but it does not account proper Wyckoff positions, this is why I used cif files.
Any help, please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks,
Rajesh
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