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Problem with simulation of a thin film

When simulating the transmission through a NiO thin film (with 65nm thickness) for three energies [ O-K (0,52 keV), Ni-L (0,85 keV) and Ni-K (7,47 keV)], the output just gives one value for all cases: 1. According to https://henke.lbl.gov/optical_constants/filter2.html the output should be smaller than 1 at least for low energies (0,85-0,9). See attached files. @2EA07C62F139CDD0 @49FC7E77F5F21CA0 @54E81AF7EAB270E9 Can anyone please check whether this happens also with their version of the tool?

Configuration:

  • use Super-X detectors
  • load NiO-film-65nm.stl, do not use any additional holder-stl-file.
  • Material settings: NiO; instead of preset density (8,90 g/cm3) use 6,67 g/cm3.
  • Simulation: simulate for 3 energies: 0.52;0.85;7.47;
  • (no specimen tilt)

NiOspecimen_only-energyOKNiLNiK-alpha0.hdf5

Q1-absorption.txt

Q2-absorption.txt

Q3-absorption.txt

Q4-absorption.txt

Transmission-Values_from_Heise.txt

NiO-film-65nm.stl