Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Study of a Chemisorption System: Oxygen on Cu(110) Surface

X-ray diffraction has always been the primary means of determining the three-dimensional structure of bulk materials, just as LEED has been for the two-dimensional structure of surfaces. Although both techniques have been applied for decades, only a handful of surface-structural problems have been solved using LEED, while bulk structures are routinely solved using X-ray diffraction techniques. The main reason for this difference is that LEED analysis is based on dynamic scattering theory while X-ray scattering is usually inter-pretable with kinematic theory.