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Powder Diffraction - Spallation Neutron Source

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The physics that determine peak profiles<br />

Common factors<br />

Instrumental Resolution<br />

Axial Divergence (Low Angle<br />

Asymmetry)<br />

Sample placement/transparency<br />

Crystallite Broadening*<br />

Strain Broadening*<br />

* Note that these effects can vary for<br />

different classes of reflections<br />

(anisotropic peak broadening)<br />

Stacking faults*<br />

Less common factors<br />

Modulated Structures*<br />

Coherence differing by atom type*<br />

Compositional inhomogeneity!<br />

* Hard to model<br />

! Sometimes impossible to model<br />

Results of these factors are convoluted to produce the observed peak<br />

shape.<br />

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