Time-Resolved Grazing-Incidence Diffraction Studies of Thin Films Using an Imaging-Plate Camera and Focusing Monochromator

A multiple imaging-plate detector system and focusing mono- chromator have been developed and successfully employed at the Australian National Beamline Facility at the Photon Factory. The utility of the system has been demonstrated through the study of temperature-dependent phase transitions in LB films of metal fatty acids by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction.