Powder Diffraction Theory and Practice

A long awaited overview of powder diffraction in modern research include essential theory and introductory material, Powder diffraction is a widely used scientific technique in the characterization of materials with broad application in materials science, chemistry, physics, geology, pharmacology an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dinnebier, R E
Other Authors: Billinge, S J L, Le Bail, Armel, Madsen, Ian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 2008
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Collection: RSC eBook Collection 1968-2009 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Principles of Powder Diffraction
  • Chapter 2: Experimental Setups
  • Chapter 3: The Intensity of a Bragg Reflection
  • Chapter 4: General Data Reduction
  • Chapter 5: The Profile of a Bragg Reflection for Extracting Intensities
  • Chapter 6: Instrumental Contributions to the Line Profile in X-ray Powder Diffraction. Example of the Diffractometer with Bragg-Brentano Geometry
  • Chapter 7: Indexing and Space Group Determination
  • Chapter 8: Crystal Structure Determination
  • Chapter 9: Rietveld Refinement
  • Chapter 10: The Derivative Difference Minimization Method
  • Chapter 11: Quantitative Phase Analysis
  • Chapter 12: Microstructural Properties: Texture and Macrostress Effects
  • Chapter 13: Microstructural Properties: Lattice Defects and Domain Size Effects
  • Chapter 14: Two-dimensional Powder Diffraction using Area Detectors: The Experimental Setup
  • Chapter 15: Powder Diffraction at Non-ambient Conditions
  • Chapter 16: Local Structure from Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis
  • Chapter 17: Computer Software for Powder Diffraction