X-ray diffraction procedures for polycrystalline and amorphous materials

X-Ray Imaging of Polycrystalline and Amorphous Materials

A novel method for obtaining position resolved information simultaneously from an entire plane of a polycrystalline or amorphous sample using the diffracted radiation or fluorescence has been developed. It makes use of a microchannelplate as a collimator in front of a position sensitive detector (CCDcamera). Experiments may be performed either in transmission or in reflection geometry. In the f...

Time-resolved x-ray diffraction techniques for bulk polycrystalline materials under dynamic loading.

We have developed two techniques for time-resolved x-ray diffraction from bulk polycrystalline materials during dynamic loading. In the first technique, we synchronize a fast detector with loading of samples at strain rates of ~10(3)-10(4) s(-1) in a compression Kolsky bar (split Hopkinson pressure bar) apparatus to obtain in situ diffraction patterns with exposures as short as 70 ns. This appr...

Characterization of polycrystalline materials using synchrotron X-ray imaging and diffraction techniques

ew opportunities for 3D materials science of polycrystalline materials at the icrometre lengthscale by combined use of X-ray diffraction and X-ray imaging

Non-destructive, three-dimensional (3D) characterization of the grain structure in mono-phase polycrystalline materials is an open challenge in material science. Recent advances in synchrotron based X-ray imaging and diffraction techniques offer interesting possibilities for mapping 3D grain shapes and crystallographic orientations for certain categories of polycrystalline materials. Direct vis...

X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction with Amorphous Ti

The amorphous alloys Ti 6 7 Si 3 3 , V 6 7Si 3 3 , and Cr , 7 Si 3 3 were produced by sputtering. Their structure was investigated by X-ray and neutron diffraction. X-ray diffraction showed that the structure of the three metallic glasses is not isomorphous. Neutron diffraction showed that S i -S i atomic pairs occur preferentially with distances distinctly larger than the atomic diameter of th...