NXgrating

Status:

base class, extends NXobject

Description:

A diffraction grating, as could be used in a soft X-ray monochromator

Symbols:

No symbol table

Groups cited:

NXdata, NXshape, NXtransformations

Structure:

@default: (optional) NX_CHAR

Declares which child group contains a path leading to a NXdata group.

It is recommended (as of NIAC2014) to use this attribute to help define the path to the default dataset to be plotted. See https://www.nexusformat.org/2014_How_to_find_default_data.html for a summary of the discussion.

angles[2]: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_ANGLE}

Blaze or trapezoidal angles, with the angle of the upstream facing edge listed first. Blazed gratings can be identified by the low value of the first-listed angle.

period[]: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

List of polynomial coefficients describing the spatial separation of lines/grooves as a function of position along the grating, in increasing powers of position. Gratings which do not have variable line spacing will only have a single coefficient (constant).

duty_cycle: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_UNITLESS}

depth: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

diffraction_order: (optional) NX_INT {units=NX_UNITLESS}

deflection_angle: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_ANGLE}

Angle between the incident beam and the utilised outgoing beam.

interior_atmosphere: (optional) NX_CHAR

Any of these values: vacuum | helium | argon

substrate_material: (optional) NX_CHAR

substrate_density: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_MASS_DENSITY}

substrate_thickness: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

coating_material: (optional) NX_CHAR

substrate_roughness: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

coating_roughness: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

layer_thickness: (optional) NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

An array describing the thickness of each layer

shape: (optional) NXshape

A NXshape group describing the shape of the mirror

figure_data: (optional) NXdata

Numerical description of the surface figure of the mirror.

TRANSFORMATIONS: (optional) NXtransformations

“Engineering” position of the grating

Hypertext Anchors

Table of hypertext anchors for all groups, fields, attributes, and links defined in this class.

documentation (reST source) anchor

web page (HTML) anchor

/NXgrating/angles-field

#nxgrating-angles-field

/NXgrating/coating_material-field

#nxgrating-coating-material-field

/NXgrating/coating_roughness-field

#nxgrating-coating-roughness-field

/NXgrating/deflection_angle-field

#nxgrating-deflection-angle-field

/NXgrating/depth-field

#nxgrating-depth-field

/NXgrating/diffraction_order-field

#nxgrating-diffraction-order-field

/NXgrating/duty_cycle-field

#nxgrating-duty-cycle-field

/NXgrating/figure_data-group

#nxgrating-figure-data-group

/NXgrating/interior_atmosphere-field

#nxgrating-interior-atmosphere-field

/NXgrating/layer_thickness-field

#nxgrating-layer-thickness-field

/NXgrating/period-field

#nxgrating-period-field

/NXgrating/shape-group

#nxgrating-shape-group

/NXgrating/substrate_density-field

#nxgrating-substrate-density-field

/NXgrating/substrate_material-field

#nxgrating-substrate-material-field

/NXgrating/substrate_roughness-field

#nxgrating-substrate-roughness-field

/NXgrating/substrate_thickness-field

#nxgrating-substrate-thickness-field

/NXgrating/TRANSFORMATIONS-group

#nxgrating-transformations-group

/NXgrating@default-attribute

#nxgrating-default-attribute

NXDL Source:

https://github.com/FAIRmat-Experimental/nexus_definitions/tree/fairmat/base_classes/NXgrating.nxdl.xml