Tutorials

This page provides tutorials (basic and advanced) to help GISAXS users with experiment design, data analysis, and data modeling:

Slides from Presentations

Theory of GISAXS, Zhang Jiang (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory): Introduction to the theoretical methods required for correctly analyzing and modeling GISAXS data, including the DWBA and waveguide effects.
GIXS: hands-on data analysis, Joe Strzalka (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory): An introduction to practical aspects of interpreting and analyzing grazing-incidence data, including the use of GIXSGUI software.
GISAXS/GIWAXS Data Analysis: Thinking in Reciprocal-Space, Kevin Yager (National Synchrotron Light Source and Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory): An introduction to the interpretation and basic analysis of GISAXS data, in particular in relation to the concept of how the experiment probes a slice through the 3D reciprocal-space.
GISAS Data Analysis with BornAgain, Walter Van Herck (Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS, Germany): Description of how to use the BornAgain software for quantitatively modeling and fitting GISAXS data.
High performance GISAXS, Alexander Hexemer (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory): Description of recent developments in the high-throughput and high-performance modeling of GISAXS data, in particular describing the HipGISAXS software.

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Fresnel plot ( $\scriptstyle R\sim q^{-4}$ )
Kratky plot ( $\scriptstyle I\sim q^{-2}$ )
Guinier plot ( $\scriptstyle \ln(I)\sim 1-(R_{g}^{2}/3)q^{2}$ )
Zimm plot