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X-ray rocking-curve analysis is applied to the detection of artifacts in multilayer epitactic growth of III-V ternary compounds by metal-organic vapour-phase epitaxy (MOVPE). Transient spikes in the composition result in unwanted additional thin layers whose presence disturbs the interference pattern expected from the designed heterostructures, thus modifying the oscillating part of the reflection profile. X-ray methods and secondary-ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) lead to descriptions of the actual layer stacking in good agreement with each other.