Due to the upcoming SLS 2.0 upgrade this technique will be unavailable at PSI until further notice.
XRD provides non-destructive information on the structural order of a material.
When the X-ray wavelength is of the order of the crystal lattice spacing, at large scattering angles XRD permits to identify different crystal phases in a sample and to quantify lattice distances and crystalline volume fractions.
At low angles of incidence, the X-rays are reflected at the surface or interface, and from the resulting X-ray reflectometry data the surface roughness of a single crystal and the thickness of a deposition layer can be obtained.
At an angle of incidence below the critical angle XRD is highly surface sensitive.
X‑ray diffraction imaging (also called X‑ray topography) is available at ESRF (beamline BM05); samples from millimetre to several decimetres can be studied.
The X-ray Beam Induced Current (XBIC) and the Time of Flight X-ray Beam Induced Current (ToF-XBIC), available at ESRF (beamline BM05) are two non-destructive techniques to characterize local electrical properties of semiconductor-based detectors.