A risk assessment of vegetation zone responses to climate change was conducted using the classical Holdridge life zone model on the Loess Plateau of Northwest China. The results show that there are currently ten vegetation zones occurring on the Loess Plateau (1950–2000), including alvar desert, alpine wet tundra, alpine rain tundra, boreal moist forest, boreal wet forest, cool temperate desert...

We report on measurements of residual stress up to 300 MPa with a microfocused synchrotron X-ray beam in quartz fragments in a cataclasite from the damage zone of the San Andreas fault, California (USA). Samples were extracted from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth drill core at a depth of 2.7 km. Stresses were derived from lattice distortions observed on Laue diffraction images. These...

Frank Michler,1, ∗ Hendrik van Hees,1, 2, † Dennis D. Dietrich,1, ‡ Stefan Leupold,3, § and Carsten Greiner1, ¶ 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany 2Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Ruth-Moufang-Straße 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany 3Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, Uppsala Universitet, Box 516, ...

Semiconductor substrates made from single crystal materials need to be cut precisely along a fixed axis during the manufacturing process of the semiconductor components. Thus, measuring the crystal orientation is critical. For these measurements, Xray techniques demonstrate the highest precision. This report presents an outline of two popular X-ray diffraction techniques, the diffractometer and...

T. Soldner1, L. Beck 2, C. Plonka3, K. Schreckenbach3 , O. Zimmer4 1Institut Laue Langevin, BP156, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France, E-mail: [email protected] 2Beschleunigerlabor von LMU und TU München, Am Coulombwall, D-85747 Garching, Germany 3Physik-Department E21, TU München, James-Franck-Str., D-85747 Garching, Germany 4Physik-Department E18, TU München, James-Franck-Str., D-85747 Garching, G...