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High-Pressure Powder Diffraction Using an Image-Plate Area Detector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Richard J. Nelmes  and
Malcolm I. McMahon
Richard J. Nelmes
Affiliation:
Department of Physics The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, U.K.
Malcolm I. McMahon
Affiliation:
Department of Physics The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, U.K.
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Modern synchrotron sources, and recent developments in experimental techniques, are allowing significant: progress to be made at present in the quality of crystal-structure infonnation at high pressure. Though there are exciting prospects for single-crystal work, especially using Laue techniques, most of the recent advances have been made in powder diffraction. In any case, high-pressure diffraction studies often require powder techniques because single crystals fail to survive the large density changes that accompany many pressure-induced phase transitions. In this paper, we focus on angle-dispersive (AD) powder diffraction on synchrotron sources.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 37: Forty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 2-6, 1993 , 1993 , pp. 419 - 432
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1993

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