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Everything about Diffractometer
Measuring instrument used to study the structure of a material using subatomic particles
A diffractometer is a measuring instrument for analyzing the structure of a material from the scattering pattern produced when a beam of radiation or particles interacts with it. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DiffractometerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: High-throughput and high-resolution powder X-ray diffractometer consisting of six sets of 2D CdTe detectors with variable sample-to-detector distance and innovative automation systemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Semiconductor Radiation DetectorsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An Empirical Method for Estimating the Degree of Crystallinity of Native Cellulose Using the X-Ray DiffractometerCited 7,960 times
- Go sideways: Powder diffractionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Diffraction topographyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A device that uses diffraction (especially X-ray diffraction) to investigate the structure of matter.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
An Empirical Method for Estimating the Degree of Crystallinity of Native Cellulose Using the X-Ray Diffractometer
An empirical method for correcting diffractometer data for absorption effects
Quantitative Analysis of Anatase-Rutile Mixtures with an X-Ray Diffractometer
Calculation of absorption corrections for camera and diffractometer data
The resolution function in neutron diffractometry. I. The resolution function of a neutron diffractometer and its application to phonon measurements
The Nanoscale Ordered MAterials Diffractometer NOMAD at the Spallation Neutron Source SNS
A new multipurpose diffractometer PILATUS@SNBL
High-resolution powder diffractometer HRPT for thermal neutrons at SINQ
🆕 Influential since 2022
High-throughput and high-resolution powder X-ray diffractometer consisting of six sets of 2D CdTe detectors with variable sample-to-detector distance and innovative automation system
Upgrade of the small-angle neutron scattering diffractometer SANS-J at JRR-3
Quick and robust PDF data acquisition using a laboratory single-crystal X-ray diffractometer for study of polynuclear lanthanide complexes in solid form and in solution
The Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) X-ray Diffractometer on the MSL Curiosity Rover: A Decade of Mineralogy from Gale Crater, Mars
CENTAUR—The small- and wide-angle neutron scattering diffractometer/spectrometer for the Second Target Station of the Spallation Neutron Source
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Semiconductor Radiation DetectorsAlan Owens · 2019
- 📕Compound semiconductor radiation detectorsAlan Owens · 2012
- 📕Analysis of yttrium-barium-copper-oxide by x-ray diffraction and mechanical characterizationPeter Arsenovic · 1992
Transmission electron microscopy and diffractometry of materialsB. Fultz, James M. Howe · 2001- 📕X-ray mineralogy and physical properties of antrim shale samples from Sanilac Co., MichiganWilliam A. Hockings · 1979
- 📕X-ray mineralogy and physical properties of antrim shale samples from Sanilac Co., MichiganWilliam A Hockings · 1979
- 📕Radiation safety for X-ray diffraction and fluorescence analysis equipmentAmerican National Standards Institute. Subcommittee N43-1. · 1972
High Resolution Powder Diffraction (Materials Science Forum,)Ed Catlow · 1986
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