A mathematical approach has been developed to determine the optical orientation of biaxial minerals by combining spindle stage and X-ray-diffractometer measurements. First, a goniometer head, with crystal affixed, is screwed onto a spindle stage, and its orientation matrix for the biaxial indicatrix is determined. Next, the same goniometer head is transferred to a single-crystal Xray diffractom...

Beamline I07 at Diamond Light Source is dedicated to the study of the structure of surfaces and interfaces for a wide range of sample types, from soft matter to ultrahigh vacuum. The beamline operates in the energy range 8-30 keV and has two endstations. The first houses a 2+3 diffractometer, which acts as a versatile platform for grazing-incidence techniques including surface X-ray diffraction...

Specimen transfer under controlled environment conditions, such as temperature, pressure, and gas composition, is necessary to conduct successive complementary in situ characterization of materials sensitive to ambient conditions. The in situ transfer concept is introduced by linking an environmental transmission electron microscope to an in situ X-ray diffractometer through a dedicated transmi...

Modeling of the X-ray diffractometer instrumental function for a given optics configuration is important both for planning experiments and for the analysis of measured data. A fast and universal method for instrumental function simulation, suitable for fully automated computer realization and describing both coplanar and noncoplanar measurement geometries for any combination of X-ray optical el...

In this article, using finite element analysis (FEA) and an X-ray diffractometer (XRD), cold-sprayed titanium particles on a steel substrate is investigated in term of cooling time and the development of residual strains. Three cooling-down models of sprayed particles after deposition stage are simulated and discussed: the first model (m1) considers conduction effect to the substrate only, the ...

A new diffractometer system was designed and built for the G2 experimental station at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source CHESS . A six-circle goniometer, which provides better access to reciprocal space compared to Eulerian cradles, was chosen primarily to perform large angle Bragg diffraction on samples with preferred crystallographic orientations, and can access both horizontal and ve...

A novel hybrid material (SBA-P1) is prepared through the functionalization of mesoporous silica (SBA-15) with a 1,8-naphthalimide-based dye by sol-gel reaction. The characterization results of elemental analysis (EA), X-ray powder diffractometer (XRD) and spectroscopic methods demonstrate the fluorescence dye P1 is successfully grafted onto the inner surface of SBA-15 and the organized structur...

We discuss an experimental protocol to measure the degree of preferred orientation by using a textural index (T) consisting of a single parameter easily derived from X-ray diffraction data recovered with a powder diffractometer. This textural index can be used for a quantitative characterization of the development of crystallographic orientation in biominerals and biomimetic materials which in ...