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Computer-Controlled X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Experiments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Melvin H. Mueller
Melvin H. Mueller*
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, Illinois 60439
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Abstract

The use of on-line computers for control and acquisition of data from x-ray and neutron diffractometers has continuously improved and expanded. Systems vary from a small 4K core computer to a time-sharing system with a medium or large computer. The choice of a single time-shared computer or an individual standalone system must be based on one's own particular environment. As large high-speed electronic computers became available, increasingly complex chemical and magnetic structures have been analysed and solved; this has created a demand for rapid, reliable, and versatile means of obtaining diffraction data. Since small computers have been developed at reduced cost and with increased storage capacity, they must be considered for use in diffraction experimentation. Therefore, in x-ray and neutron scattering, small computers are needed for data acquisition and large computers are needed for data analysis.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 15: Twentieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 11-13, 1971 , 1971 , pp. 70 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1971

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Work performed under the auspices of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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