The powder diffractometer moves both the x-ray source and an electronic detector through arcs of θ values and sends to a computer periodic signals proportional to the averaged diffracted x-ray …

For real materials, the powder diffraction pattern shows not only the crystal structure, but also shows microstructure details: ! How the crystallites are oriented, if not random (texture) !

Single crystal experiments are only concerned with peak positions and intensities, whereas powder diffraction also analyzes peak shapes to extract microstructural information from samples

To get the best possible results out of your system, this book gives you an introduction to X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD or, mostly used, XRD) and provides helpful information. It gives a …

What is Powder Diffraction? Powder diffraction is a flexible technique for studying crystalline materials with crystal sizes ranging from microns to nanometers, with high information content. …

On high intensity synchrotron beamlines, a dataset can be collected in a fraction of a second!

In this introductory chapter, the basic physics behind the observation of a powder diffraction pattern is described.