Installed in 1999 the energy-dispersive reflectometer at the 13.2 bending m
agnet employs the exponentially decaying white X-ray emission spectrum of t
he 1.7 GeV storage ring of BESSY II outside the vacuum. Using an energy-dis
persive detector specular and longitudinal-diffuse reflectivity spectra of
thin films can be recorded simultaneously between 0.2 Angstrom (-1) <q(z) <
1.2 Angstrom (-1) within a few seconds.
The capability of the experiment is demonstrated probing the correlation le
ngth of Cd-arachidate and -stearate films at room temperature and its chang
e during annealing. At T = 70 degreesC we observe an instantaneous decay of
specular Bragg peaks accompanied with an increase of the diffuse scatterin
g. This indicates the onset of the melting of 2D-ordered acid domains. The
vertical diffusion coefficient is estimated to be about 2 x 10(-24) m(2)/s.
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