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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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.
instrument page
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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.
Instrument page
XRD Resources
File format conversion
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)
Free Crystallographic databases
COD – Crystallography Open Database – over 400k entries (32GB unzipped)
AMSCSD – American Mineralogist Society Crystal Structure Database (primarily minerals)