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X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD)

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD)
 

CEMAS houses two X-ray diffractometers, a Rigaku SmartLab and a Rigaku MiniFlex. The MiniFlex is a compact easy-to-use Bragg-Brentano unit optimized for powder diffraction measurements. The SmartLab is a "Swiss Army Knife" that can be configured in a number of different ways. 

XRD Instruments at CEMAS

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SmartLab scanner
Rigaku SmartLab
The CEMAS SmartLab XRD is our most flexible diffractometer. It has the ability to run in many different modes with the system providing guidance for the user in preparing data acquisition.
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Miniflex scanner
Rigaku MiniFlex 600
The Rigaku MiniFlex 600 is a compact benchtop theta:2-theta diffractometer. It is computer controlled and fully capable of providing qualitative and quantitative analyses for unknown powder crystalline materials.

XRD Resources

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POWDLL 

Peak Fitting and Rietveld

QualX2 – use together with their POWCOD database
GSAS-II - the standard for Rietveld analysis
FullProf 
Profex 
Jana 
MAUD 
HyperSpy - general purpose data processing toolbox

Pole Figure, Texture, and Orientation Analysis

ATEX 
BearTex 
MTEX 
StereoPole
EBSD.info - information on EBSD and texture.

X-ray Reflectivity (XRR)

REFLEX
MotoFit (Igor software)
 

Free Crystallographic databases

COD – Crystallography Open Database – over 400k entries (32GB unzipped)
AMSCSD – American Mineralogist Society Crystal Structure Database (primarily minerals)

X-ray Diffraction Tutorials

Well done site with microscopy and diffraction tutorials 

XRD News
Hendrik Colijn receives Chuck Fiori Award from Microscopy Society of America
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering congratulates Henk Colijn for being among the 2022 Society Award Recipients announced by the Microscopy Society of America...