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X-ray Diffraction Techniques

This teaching & learning package provides an introduction to X-ray diffraction. It describes the main crystallographic information that can be obtained and experimental methods most commonly used.

$Schematic diagram of diffraction$

Aims
Before you start
Introduction
Experimental matters
Bragg′s law
Single crystal diffraction
Determining lattice parameters accurately
Relationship between crystalline structure and X-ray data
Powder diffraction
Phase identification
Oriented (or textured) samples
Summary
Questions
Going further

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Schematic diagram of diffraction

First created: April 2004. Completely revised: October 2007. Animations updated to HTML5: December 2019.