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PDF Workshop Real-Space Pair
Distribution Function Methods When: Saturday July 21st, 2001 Where: American Crystallographic Association Annual meeting, Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles, CA Registration Deadline: June 1st for preregistration discount. Space is limited so please preregister. Information and Registration Documents:
http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/aca Organizers: Simon Billinge (Michigan State U), Thomas Proffen (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Valeri Petkov (Michigan State U) Contact us: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you have samples with significant disorder or diffuse scattering but still want to know their structure? In that case, a real-space atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis may reveal new information. This workshop is to introduce the PDF technique to students and researchers. This is a straightforward powder diffraction technique, which can be used to analyze laboratory x-ray data to obtain local structure information (though usually more is learned from a synchrotron or neutron measurement). This will be a one-day hands-on workshop introducing the technique and teaching how to obtain and analyze diffraction data to obtain a real-space. Workshop attendees will receive a CD containing all the computer codes required to analyze the data to obtain the PDF and to carry out full-profile modeling. They will then work through a number of examples of data analysis and modeling on the computer. Attendees are encouraged to bring some of their own powder diffraction data from a sample of interest and we will also try and analyze it (it should be a computer file in two-column ascii format). We hope to see you in Los Angeles, Simon Billinge, Thomas Proffen & Valeri Petkov |
Title: PDF Workshop
