Assistant Professor
Department of Condensed Matter Physics (UFKL)
CEITEC, Masaryk University
Kotlarska 2 (Bldg. 9)
CZ-611 37 Brno
Czech Republic
tel: +420 54949 6947
fax: +420 541 211 214
Doctoral thesis: “Structural investigations of
nano-islands using X-ray diffraction techniques ” (2006)
Graduation thesis: “Monochromatization of X-rays
with periodic multilayers ” (1999) (in Czech only).
Czech title of the thesis: “Monochromatizace rtg záření periodickými multivrstvami.”
MatSpecGUI is a Matlab based utility which allow for processing and imaging of 2D x-ray data acquired via SPEC software. In particular, the utility is aimed to handle x-ray data measured via 1-dimensional position sensitive detectors (PSDs).
A short movie on a x-ray diffraction set-up allowing for grazing incidence diffraction measurements at home laboratory. At the Institute of Solid State Physics at the Technical University in Graz (Austria), we reconfigured a commercial Bruker D8 Discovery diffractometer. The set-up involves a combination of a Bruker D8 Ultra GID x-ray tube holder, Vantec-1 linear PSD, a parabolic collimating x-ray mirror, and two soller slits. Performance tests of the set-up showed that phase analysis of organic thin films (50 nm pentacene) and in-plane lattice parameters determination of self-organized organic molecules monolayers (quinquethiophene) are feasible within 10 to 20 hours of GIXD reciprocal space maps measurments.