J. Zendehroud et al., LATTICE-CONSTANT DETERMINATION IN CUBIC T HIN-FILMS UNDER THERMAL STRAIN, Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik, 26(7), 1995, pp. 386-393
An X-ray diffraction procedure is presented to determine the lattice c
onstant of a cubic thin film which is thermally strained. The procedur
e also gives the thermal strain. As application examples, the lattice
constants of thin aluminium and copper films deposited by ion-platting
are evaluated from grazing incidence diffraction data.