Re: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Jose marcos Sasaki
Dear Kurt, The only thing that I remember is to change cos(2theta) of monochromator in polarization factor or precisely calculate the polarization factor for n-reflection in the monochromator. Regards Sasaki Kurt Leinenweber escreveu: Hi All, I am attempting to assist others to choose a

Re: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Jon Wright
Kurt Leinenweber wrote: ... with wRp of 25% and crystallographic R also near 25% .. Maybe the background is too low :-? Jon

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
Hi Kurt, If you plot the results in POWPLOT do the statistical analysis what does the delt/sig vs 2-theta plot look like? If weights are right then the band of delt/sig ought to be roughly 2-3 sig wide. Is your data in cpm? Some instruments make that by default. That will mess up the

PS RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
Dear Rietvelders: P.S. I should mention that with that background of only 2 counts, the maximum signal was around 2000 counts. Thanks to everyone for all the help so far. - Kurt -Original Message- From: Jon Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: