The Rietveld Method

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

1995
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-855912-2 (ISBN)

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The Rietveld method is now widely recognized as uniquely valuable for structural analyses of nearly all classes of crystalline materials not available as single crystals. This book is the first graduate text to provide a comprehensive introduction to the technique, with contributors from internationally recognized authorities in the field.

The Rietveld method is a powerful and relatively new method for extracting detailed crystal structural information from X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data. Since then structural details dictate much of the physical and chemical attributes of materials, knowledge of them is crucial to our understanding of those properties and our ability to manipulate them. Since most materials of technological interest are not available as single crystals but often are available only in polycrystalline or powder form, the Rietveld method has become very important and is now widely used in all branches of science that deal with materials at the atomic level.

Introduction to the Rietveld Method ; 1. The early days: a retrospective view ; 2. Mathematical aspects of Rietveld refinement ; 3. The flow of radiation in a polycrystalline material ; 4. Data collection strategies: fitting the experiment to the need ; 5. Background modelling in Rietveld analysis ; 6. Analytical profile fitting of X-ray powder diffraction profiles in Rietveld analysis ; 7. Crystal imperfection broadening and peak shape in the Rietveld method ; 8. Bragg reflection profile shape in X-ray powder diffraction patterns ; 9. Restraints and constraints in Rietveld refinement ; 10. Rietveld refinement with time-of-flight powder diffraction data from pulsed neutron sources ; 11. Combined X-ray and neutron Rietveld refinement ; 12. Rietveld analysis programs Rietan and Premos and special applications ; 13. Position - constrained and unconstrained powder-pattern-decomposition methods ; 14. Ab initio structure solutions with powder diffraction data

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.1.1995
Reihe/Serie	International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography ; 5
Zusatzinfo	line figures, tables
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	459 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	0-19-855912-7 / 0198559127
ISBN-13	978-0-19-855912-2 / 9780198559122
Zustand	Neuware