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An Area-Imaging Proportional Counter for X-Ray Diffraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

C. Richard Desper
Affiliation:
Polymer Research Division, Organic Materials Laboratory, Army Materials & Mechanics Research Center, Watertown, Massachusetts 02172
Ronald Burns
Affiliation:
Xentronics Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
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Slow data acquisition rates have, in the past, limited the use of X-ray diffraction for characterization of polymeric materials. Photon counting techniques yield quantitative data in digital form for computer analysis. However, a great deal of data acquisition time is required when data is taken sequentially; i.e., when each intensity determination (at a particular goniometer setting) requires a separate time interval, during which intensity at other angle values is ignored. The problem is particularly acute for oriented polymers since two or more diffraction angles are involved: The Bragg angle along with at least one orientation angle. For this reason, an area-imaging (two-dimensional) proportional counter has been developed for use with a four-circle X-ray diffraction system. Although basically a single-crystal unit, this goniometer has been used in this laboratory and others for studies of oriented polymers. The receiving pinhole collimator and aperture have been removed, and the area-imaging counter has been mounted on the detector arm track. The original receiving aperture is still used for alignment, and the area detector Is positioned with its center at the receiving aperture center position.

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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1980

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