High temperature ferro-paraelectric phase transition in tris(trimethylammonium) nonachlorodiantimonate(III) (TMACA) studied by X-ray diffraction method

High temperature X-ray diffraction apparatus.

Deformation in Metallic Glasses Studied by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

High mechanical strength is one of the superior properties of metallic glasses which render them promising as a structural material. However, understanding the process of mechanical deformation in strongly disordered matter, such as metallic glass, is exceedingly difficult because even an effort to describe the structure qualitatively is hampered by the absence of crystalline periodicity. In sp...

High Pressure-High Temperature, X-Ray Diffraction Apparatus

A tetrahedral-anvil press has been developed that permits x-ray diffraction powder measurements at pressures to 75 kb and temperatures to 1000°C. A counting technique, rather than photographic film, is used for x-ray detection. Sample tetrahedra of compressed LiH, boron, and boron-filled plastic are used in place of the pyrophyllite customarily used for this purpose. Two possible entrance pupil...

Glass Studied by Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction

The short-range order of K P 0 3 glass has been studied by diffraction methods in order to make evident the different behaviour of the P-O bonds within the P 0 4 tetrahedron. The oxygen sites are devided into bridging and terminal (non-bridging) oxygen sites, corresponding to two P 0 bond lengths, the difference of which amounts to 14.5 pm. Previous conclusions about the changes of the P 0 bond...

Phase-targeted X-ray diffraction

A powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) method to enhance the signal of a specific crystalline phase within a mixture is presented for the first time. Specificity to the targeted phase relies on finding coincidences in the ratios of crystal d spacings and the ratios of elemental characteristic X-ray energies. Such coincidences can be exploited so that the two crystal planes diffract through the same s...