High resolution powder diffraction studies at low temperature

The High Resolution Powder Diffraction Beam Line at ESRF

The optical design and performance of the high-resolution powder diffraction beam line BM16 at ESRF are discussed and illustrated. Some recent studies carried out on BM16 are described, including crystal structure solution and refinement, anomalous scattering, in situ measurements, residual strain in engineering components, investigation of microstructure, and grazing-incidence diffraction from...

A High-temperature Powder Diffraction Furnace

A new high-temperature XRD instrument, utilizing multilayer optics and a custom furnace, has been developed to maximize sensitivity and minimize problems associated with sample displacement. This paper will describe the technical specifications of the new instrument, and will present temperature calibration with standard reference materials and measurement of phase evolution in an industrial gl...

Beamline P02.1 at PETRA III for high-resolution and high-energy powder diffraction

Powder X-ray diffraction techniques largely benefit from the superior beam quality provided by high-brilliance synchrotron light sources in terms of photon flux and angular resolution. The High Resolution Powder Diffraction Beamline P02.1 at the storage ring PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg, Germany) combines these strengths with the power of high-energy X-rays for materials research. The beamline is o...

High-Temperature X-Ray Powder Diffraction of Secondary Gypsum

Microtubule structure at low resolution by x-ray diffraction.

Analysis of x-ray diagrams of oriented hydrated cytoplasmic microtubules shows that the tubule wall extends from about 70 to 150 A radially. The central region of the wall appears homogeneous, but the outside surface is subdivided by vertical grooves separating the 13 protofilaments and by a steep 10-fold family of grooves. The inside surface is dominated by the 10-start grooves with no clear s...