European Powder Diffraction EPDIC 7: (Volumes 378-381 Materials Science Forum)

X-ray powder diffraction is a non-destructive technique widely applied for the characterization of crystalline materials. The method has been traditionally used for phase identification, quantitative analysis and the determination of structure imperfections. In recent years, applications have been extended to new areas, such as the determination of crystal structures and the extraction of three-dimensional microstructural properties. Following the EPDIC award lecture on x-ray scattering from metallic multilayers by D. Rafaja, the present volume covers all aspects of method development (deconvolution and pattern decomposition; determination of crystal structure and lattice constants; qualitative and quantitative phase analysis; analysis of microstructure and macrostress; texture and coarse grains), instrument development and measurement techniques, synchrotron powder diffraction, neutron powder diffraction and in-situ (time resolved) powder diffraction.

Table of Contents:
X-Ray Scattering from Metallic Multilayers Deconvolution by Example - Computational Test of Effective Algorithms Deconvolution of X-Ray Diffraction Profiles Using Series Expansion: A Line-Broadening Study of Polycrystalline 9-YSZ Powder Pattern Decomposition with the Aid of Preferred Orientation - Use of the Whole Debye-Scherrer Ring Fundamental Parameters Versus Learnt Profiles Using the Rietveld Program BGMN Structure Solution of Molecular Crystals from Powder Diffraction Data Using Genetic Algorithms: Opportunities in Academic and Industrial Research Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry: Internet Course Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction Data by a Combined Global Optimization of Several Cost Functions: Problems and Perspectives MEM-Based Structure-Refinement System REMEDY and its Applications ESPOIR: A Program for Solving Structures by Monte Carlo Analysis of Powder Diffraction Data Modelling of Atomic and Magnetic Structures from Powder Diffraction Data: Recent Developments of the RMCPOW Method A Re-Interpretation of the Direct Methods Sum Function The Limits to the Determination of Crystal Structure from Powder X-Ray Diffraction Data Standardless Estimation of Lattice Constants Based on Fundamental-Parameters Method Determination of the Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Small Samples and Powders by X-Ray Diffractometry up to about 300°C: Some Results on Metals and Rocks Data Mining in the ICDD's Metals & Alloys Relational Database PCSIWIN: A Windows-Based Index Program with Hanawalt, Fink and Alphabetic Search Capabilities for Use with the ICDD Powder Diffraction File (PDF) WinMProf: Visual Rietveld Software WinPLOTR: A Windows Tool for Powder Diffraction Pattern Analysis Interlaboratory Comparison (Round Robin) of the Application of the Rietveld Method to Quantitative Phase Analysis by X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Line Profile Analysis in the Rietveld Method and Whole-Powder-Pattern Fitting Calculation of Diffraction Line Profiles for Structures with Dislocations Peak-Shape Analysis Using the General Debye Equation Peculiarities of the X-Ray Powder Diffraction Patterns from FCC Crystals Containing a High Concentration of Random Deformation Stacking Faults Structural Characteristics of Disordered Lamellar Structures: Interpretation of XRD and SAXS Patterns Peak Shift Correction for Transparency in Classical XRD Residual Stress Methods General Newly-Discovered Regularities of Structure Inhomogeneity in Textured Metal Materials The Fullest Description of the Structure of Textured Metal Materials with Generalized Pole Figures: the Example of Rolled Zr Alloys Modeling the Texture Development of Two-Phase Composites by Considering Intra-Crystalline Misorientation Anisotropy of Secondary Extinction Coefficient in Textured Films High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Using Energy Resolving Detectors High-Temperature Double-Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer for In-Situ Studies, the Hotbird Software Package for Data Acquisition and Remote Control of the High-Temperature X-Ray Diffractometer, Hotbird Comparison of Optical Elements for X-Ray Diffraction Analysis in Para-Focusing and Parallel Beam Geometries Polycapillary Condensing Lens: Alignment Procedures and Optical Performances X-Ray Powder Diffractometer with an Elliptic Focusing Göbel Mirror and Debye Scherrer Geometry Experimental Study of the Resolution Function of a Texture Diffractometer Improved Backloading for Better Results The Commissioning of a High Count Rate Detector on Station 2.3 at the SRS In-Situ Studies of X-Ray Diffraction Line Profiles from Strained Copper Foils Automated Estimations of Asymmetric Linewidth Parameters for High-Resolution X-Ray & Neutron Powder Diffraction Data Magnetic Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Symmetry Analysis and Simulated Annealing Hydrogen Positions in KCo-, CsCo-, CsNi-, and CsCu-Tutton Salt Compounds Determined by Neutron Powder Diffraction The Concept of the New Structure Powder Diffractometer (SPODI) at the FRM-II in Garching E9: The New High-Resolution Neutron Powder Diffractometer at the Berlin Neutron Scattering Center Monte Carlo Simulation of the High-Intensity 2-Axis Neutron Diffractometer D20 Instrumental Resolution Function of the ESRF Powder Diffraction Beamline BM16 Temperature Resolved X-Ray Diffraction as a Tool for Studying the Recrystallization Process in Cold-Rolled Steels Interaction of Metal Nanoparticle Surfaces with Gas Phase Studied by X-Ray Diffraction Amorphous-to-Crystalline Transformation of Thin ITO Films Studied by In-Situ Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffractometry In Situ X-Ray Powder Diffraction: The Reactions of Pb(IV)-Fluoride with Ammonia and NH4F Dynamic XRD Studies of Phase Stabilized Ammonium Nitrate during Temperature Cycling In-Situ X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Study of Ba2In2O5 Neutron Diffraction Direct Observation of the Decomposition Processes in a Bi:Pb:Sr:Ca:Cu=1.7:0.3:2.0:2.5:3.5 Nitrate Freeze Dried Powder Phase Transitions on Dehydration of the Natural Zeolite Thomsonite Formation of Nanocrystalline Re-Si Thin Film Composites X-Ray Diffraction Line Broadening from Gold and Platinum Thin Films Co/Si/W/Si Multilayers with Enhanced Thermal Stability for Soft X-Ray and UV Optics Influence of Annealing on Structural Properties of Metallic Multilayers Bulk and Surface Structure of Semifluorinated Polyesters C60 - Polymer Nanocomposites: Evidence for Interface Interaction Crystallinity of Urea - Formaldehyde Polycondensation Products X-Ray Diffraction Study of Cu25[AsSe1.4I0.2]75 Amorphous Semiconductor Crystal Structure and Magnetic Properties of Gd1+nFe12-x-yMox⃞y Solid Solution Neutron Diffraction Study ofthe Magnetic Structures of Some RT2X2 Compounds Neutron Powder Diffraction of Iron-Rich Rare Earth-Iron-Aluminium Intermetallics RFe7Al5 (R = Tb, Dy, Ho, Er) X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Martensitic Transformation in Ni2MnGa Alloys Effect of γ⇔α Transitions on the Crystal Structure of Fe-Ni Alloys Time Temperature-Transformation Diagrams of some Alloy Materials X-Ray Anomalous Diffraction Study of the Crystal Structure of Y(Co,Ni)4B Compounds Influence of Structural Factors on Laser Hardening of Iron Distribution of Residual Stresses in the Surface Layers of Carbon Steels after Laser Treatment Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Potassium-Doped Tungsten Wire Samples Diffraction-Line Profile Analysis - A Simple Way to Characterize Ball-Milled Mo? X-Ray Analysis of the Defect Structure in Cu Subjected to Severe Plastic Deformation Structural Studies of Ultrafine Grained Copper Obtained by Severe Plastic Deformation Crystal Structure of the High Pressure Phase of Bismuth Bi-III Structure and Thermal Behaviour of New Potassium and Ammonium Lanthanum Sulfates from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Simultaneous Structural and Metal-Insulator Transition in RNiO3 Perovskites (R= Ho, Y, Er, Lu) Oxygen Disorder and Conductivity in Pyrochlore and Perovskite-Based Compounds A Study of the Thermal Annealing Influence on the Structure and Phase Composition of Silicon Carbonitride Films by the Diffraction of Synchrotron Radiation Phase Transition and Magnetic Ordering of the Quasi One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet RbMnBr3 A Neutron Powder Diffraction and Inelastic Light Scattering Study of (La,Sr)MnO3+δ Neutron Powder Diffraction Study of Structural Phase Transitions in BaPbO3 Crystal Structure Studies of Natural and Synthetic Apatites by Neutron Powder Diffraction Thermal Study of a Precursor for Catalyst Supports: Well- and Micro-Crystallised Boehmites Aluminum Nitride Compressibility and Thermal Expansion under Pressure High-Pressure Studies of La0.25Ca0.75MnO3 Using X-Ray Diffraction at the ESRF Synchrotron Synchrotron X-Ray Powder Diffraction Study of a Pressure-Induced Phase Transition in Ferroelectric PbTiO3 Study of Disorder Caused by the Dehydration of Hydrated Kaolinite Effect of an Excess of Lithium Ions on the Formation of Mn-Substituted LiFe5O8 with an Ordered Spinel Structure Growth Behaviour of Aluminium Oxide in O2 Microwave Plasma Effect of Electric and Magnetic Fields on the Processes of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis Does Lithology Affect Illite and Chlorite Crystallinities? Ab Initio Crystal Structure Determination and Thermal Behaviour of a Large-Pore, 24-Membered Ring, Zeolitic Nickel(II) Phosphate, VSB-5 Ab Initio Crystal Structure Determination of Three Pharmaceutical Compounds from X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data Lead Zirconium Oxalates: Ab Initio Crystal Structure Determination, Water-Vapour-Pressure Dependence, Thermal Behaviour Anomalous Valence Contrast of Metal Transition in Nanocrystalline Ferrite Structure Determination of κ-Al2O3 Simultaneous Neutron and X-Ray Refinement of the Structure of Ag2Cu2O3, the First Silver Copper Oxide Phase Segregation in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 (x ≥ 0.75) Investigated by Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction Neutron Diffraction Studies of the Crystal and Magnetic Structures of BiMnxFe1-xO3 Solid Solutions Charge-Order and Phase Coexistence in Bi1/2Sr1/2MnO3 Cation Disorder in the Mixed Lead Bismuth Oxides A0.875Pb0.125Bi2Nb2O9, A = Sr, Ba Powder Structure Determination of Li2PdO3: a NaCl Structure Type with Turbostratic Effect Refinement of Incommensurate Misfit Compounds: Sr14-xCaxCu24O41 Structural Modifications of Rb3RE(PO4)2 Phases (RE = La, Gd, Y) When X-Ray Powder Diffraction Goes Beyond Single Crystal Diffraction: the Structure of [Y(H2O)]2(C2O4)(CO3)2 Revisited Using Powder Data Rietveld Refinement of the Crystal Structure of Potassium Iron Oxalate Trihydrate from Laboratory X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data High Temperature Powder X-Ray Diffraction of MZnPO4 Compounds (M = Na, K, Tl) Synchrotron X-Ray Powder Structure of the New Layered Phosphate Ti2O2H(PO4)[(NH4)2PO4]2 Structural Characterization of Synthetic Beudantite-Type Phases by Rietveld Refinement Structure of Mg-Exchanged Phillipsites Quantitative Rietveld Phase Analysis of BPSCCO-2223 Precursor Powders and Multifilamentary Tapes Using XRD Quantitative Phase Analysis of High Alumina Cement Quantitative X-Ray Powder Diffraction Analysis of Some Feldspars Used as Raw Material in Ceramics Quantitative Phase Analysis of Natural Raw Materials Containing Montmorillonite Linear Thermal Expansion Tensor in KRE(WO4)2 (RE=Gd, Y, Er, Yb) Monoclinic Crystals Neutron Texture Investigation of Electrolytic Li2CO3/KLiCO3 from a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Structural Properties of Carbon-Implanted TiN Coatings Studied by Glancing-Incidence X-Ray Diffraction X-Ray Line Profile Analysis of Nanodisperse Silicon Nitride Ceramics Distribution of Strain in GaN and SiC Nanocrystals under Extreme Pressures XRPD Analysis of Karrooite-Like Metastable Nanocrystalline Phases Sizes and Shapes of Crystallites in Mullites Produced by Thermal Treatment of Kaolin - Alumina Mixture Stacking Disorder in Aurivillius Compounds Studied by X-Ray Diffraction Line Profile Analysis Chemical and X-Ray Diffraction Peak Broadening Analysis, Electron Microscopy and IR Studies of Biological Apatites Mechanochemical Treatment of SrFe12O19 - Microstructural Investigation by Neutron Diffraction Magnetic Cation Distribution in a Nanocrystalline Fe3O4 Spinel Determination of the Cationic Composition Distributions in Mixed Uranium and Plutonium Oxides by Diffraction-Line Profile Analysis Structure Determination of 4,4'-Trimethylenedipyridine from Powder Diffraction Data Crystal Structure Solution of the Dark Red, Light Red and Orange Polymorphs of 5-Methyl-2-[(2-Nitro-4-Methylphenyl)Amino]-3-Thiophenecarbonitrile by High Resolution X-Ray Powder Diffraction and Simulated Annealing Techniques Crystal Structure Determination of p-Bromoaniline Using Laboratory X-Ray Powder Diffraction Data Structure Determination of Two Organometallic Complexes from Powder Data Using Grid-Search Techniques