"The crystal structures of the real world are extremely diverse. They are one of nature's deepest mysteries," says Kubo, the first author of the paper. "We thought that, in a way, we could get a ...

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 ...

Radial averaging resulted in X-ray diffraction powder patterns of unprecedented quality suitable for Rietveld refinement, and a whole new level of high-pressure crystallography became possible.

A research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki from the University of Tokyo has developed an innovative computational ...

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

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 ...