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What are the informations we can get from critical angle in XRR...

David A Miller  Follow

Dear  Dr. Ranjan Roy,
 When X-rays incident at a flat surface at grazing angles of incidence, total reflection will occur at or below a certain angle, qc – The critical angle.  In the case of Cu Kα radiation, the critical angle is 0.22° for silicon on a glass plate, 0.42° for nickel, and 0.57° for gold. The angle varies depending upon the electronic density of the material.
The higher the electron density ρ(z) of a material, the higher the critical angle.
 θC ≈ √ ρ
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Claudio Delise  Follow

From critical angle gives information about the average density of layer.

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Dave Vander Vlucht  Follow

To be more precise, critical angle is proportional to the square root of electronic density. 

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