Local Structure from Diffraction

✍ Scribed by Takeshi Egami (auth.), S. J. L. Billinge, M. F. Thorpe (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 396
• Series: Fundamental Materials Research
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series. M.F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail: thorpe @ pa.msu.edu East Lansing, Michigan PREFACE One of the most challenging problems in the study of structure is to characterize the atomic short-range order in materials. Long-range order can be determined with a high degree of accuracy by analyzing Bragg peak positions and intensities in data from single crystals or powders. However, information about short-range order is contained in the diffuse scattering intensity. This is difficult to analyze because it is low in absolute intensity (though the integrated intensity may be significant) and widely spread in reciprocal space.

✦ Table of Contents

PDF Analysis Applied to Crystalline Materials....Pages 1-21
Anomalous X-Ray Scattering from Disordered Materials....Pages 23-33
The Recording and Interpretation of Diffuse X-Ray Scattering....Pages 35-58
Recent Advances in Structure Refinement for Liquids and Disordered Materials....Pages 59-83
Neutron Scattering and Monte Carlo Studies of Disorder in Oxides and Hydrides....Pages 85-100
Reverse Monte Carlo Refinement of Disordered Silica Phases....Pages 101-119
Modelling Single Crystal Diffuse Neutron Scattering Using Reverse Monte Carlo....Pages 121-136
Real-Space Rietveld: Full Profile Structural Refinement of the Atomic Pair Distribution Function....Pages 137-156
Advances in Pair Distribution Profile Fitting in Alloys....Pages 157-173
Local Atomic Arrangements in Binary Solid Solutions Studied by X-Ray and Neutron Diffuse Scattering from Single Crystals....Pages 175-188
Fermi Surface Effects in the Diffuse Scattering from Alloys....Pages 189-205
Non-Mean-Field Theories of Short Range Order and Diffuse Scattering Anomalies in Disordered Alloys....Pages 207-231
Diffuse Scattering by Crystals with Defects of Coulomb Displacement Field....Pages 233-251
Short-Range Disorder and Long-Range Order: Implications of the “Rigid Unit Mode” Picture....Pages 253-271
Vibrational Entropy and Local Structures of Solids....Pages 273-294
Diffuse Scattering by Domain Structures....Pages 295-321
Recent “Local” Structural Studies: Metallic Alloys, Superconductors and Proteins....Pages 323-336
Studies of Local Structure in Polymers Using X-Ray Scattering....Pages 337-350
Diffuse X-Ray and Neutron Reflection from Surfaces and Interfaces....Pages 351-373
Studying Growth Kinetics of Metallic Multilayers Using Elastic X-Ray Diffuse Scattering....Pages 375-390

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Condensed Matter; Analytical Chemistry