When a laser beam is incident on many small objects such as lycopodium powder, the resulting diffraction pattern is similar to the diffraction pattern of a small circular aperture (Airy's disk pattern ...

The most common application of XRD, Phase Analysis seeks to answer the fundamental question we can ask of a material: 'what is it?' We compare diffraction patterns against the 2014 edition of the ICDD ...

scattering angle scans. Data reduction schemes include unit cell determination, pattern indexing, precision lattice parameter determination, and Reitveld analysis. Crystalline compounds can be ...