Defect and Microstructure Analysis by Diffraction looks at a key aspect of state-of-the-art methods for analyzing the actual structure of materials. Diffraction analysis is typically based on idealized crystals. The impurities and irregularities that work themselves into virtually all crystal structures, however, cause diffraction peak profiles to broaden and sometimes become asymmetric, making the data difficult to interpret. More powerful methods are undoing this effect, using the discrepancies themselves to describe microstructure of the material with unprecedented accuracy. These...

This volume focuses on all the fundamentals required to understand the theory and practice of powder diffraction with an emphasis on the two most important applications: qualitative and quantitative analysis. It should be of interest to technicians and upper-graduate/graduate students, as well as researchers in this field.