A new diffractometer that can be described as a high-intensity low-background high-resolution diffractometer for analysing perfect, nearly perfect and highly imperfect materials on a routine basis is presented. The instrumentation is very simple and uncomplicated, yet the way in which it works is less obvious. The sample requires minimal sample alignment, the resolution can be adjusted to optim...

The molecular beam epitaxial (MBE) growth and postgrowth annealing of InAs/GaAs(001) quantum dots were investigated by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction using a diffractometer integrated with an MBE apparatus. The use of synchrotron radiation and a two-dimensional X-ray detector enabled X-ray diffraction measurements on the internal strains and height of dots at a rate of less than 10 s per f...

the silica aerogel was prepared by the acid–base sol–gel polymerization of tetraethylorthosilicate precursor followed by ambient pressure drying. the prepared silica aerogels were characterized by fourier transform infrared )ft-ir(, thermo-gravimetric and differential thermal analysis )tg/dta(, x-ray diffractometer )xrd(, energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis )edx(, brunauer–emmitt–teller (bet)...

A new powder diffractometer operating in transmission mode is described. It can work as a rapid very compact instrument or as a high-resolution instrument, and the sample preparation is simplified. The incident beam optics create pure Cu Kα1 radiation, giving rise to peak widths of ∼0.1° in 2θ in compact form with a sample-to-detector minimum radius of 55 mm, reducing to peak widths of <0.05° i...

Nowadays various methods are presented for synthesis of barium strontium titanate (BST) nanopowders with different morphology and properties. Each of these (BST)s has got individual characterization that makes it suitable for a special application. Every method has a special quality, causes it to have preference over the other methods. Low processing temperature is a desired point which most of...

Nowadays various methods are presented for synthesis of barium strontium titanate (BST) nanopowders with different morphology and properties. Each of these (BST)s has got individual characterization that makes it suitable for a special application. Every method has a special quality, causes it to have preference over the other methods. Low processing temperature is a desired point which most of...

Errors in the article by Fukamachi, Jongsukswat, Ju, Negishi, Hirano & Kawamura [J. Appl. Cryst. (2014), 47, 1267-1272] are corrected.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1107/S1600576714012114.].