R: inexpensive detectors

2014-02-11 Thread gregor
Hi Ron and all, I realize that I'm not the only one who'd like to use the Gandolfi technique without the need to make one's own photographic films. In principle there are various ways to solve the problem. One would be to mount a Gandolfi attachment on a 4-circle goniometer equipped with a

negative peak

2013-11-21 Thread gregor
with some materials, I observed powder diffraction patterns (Bragg-Brentano, X'pert) which show a broad negative peak around 5-6º(2th), instead of the smoothly descending intensity coming from the primary beam. Did some of you observe the same phenomenon, and has this been dealt with anywhere?

Re: What is a good sequence for refinement of (U,V,W) of a multiphase sample ?

2010-02-03 Thread gregor
you better refine uvw globally for the sample and then Lorentzian x and y individually for each phase. uvw should be constant for a given diffractometer setting and you might get it from an independent refinement of a standard. best miguel On 3 Feb 2010 at 15:41, Huy LE-QUOC wrote: Dear

Re: GSAS bond angle reconstraints

2008-11-26 Thread gregor
you also might circumvent the problem by substituting the angle with a distance restraint (Si-Si for Si-O-Si, etc). best miguel On 25 Nov 2008 at 9:39, Brian H. Toby wrote: When setting up a bond angle soft constraint in GSAS, one needs to input the atomic sequence numbers for the three

(Fwd) Re: Preferred orientation?

2008-05-08 Thread gregor
I very much agree with Luca in that graininess is not given the importance it actually has. Older textbooks like Klug-Alexander or Peiser considered graininess to some depth, and simple estimations show that in a usual BB sample, the number of grains in Bragg condition may be as low as 1 for a

Re: low background capillaries

2008-04-21 Thread gregor
dear Natale, BTW, did you ever make a chemical analysis of your capillaries? I tried once, and as far as I remember, I remained with the terrible doubt that it was just bottle glass... An alternative are CA (cellulose acetate) capillaries which really contain only first row elements and can

Re: WARNING: Posting large attachments

2008-03-17 Thread gregor
Alan, why so restrictive? In many occasions it was helpful for discussion to have a small .gif or so. Also, I think data transfer and server capacity has increased compared to, say, 10 y ago, and each of us receives plenty of (unrequested) MB every day. Why should we put a priori limits to

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-19 Thread gregor
I think that care has to be taken when defining B=noise. In many cases, B contains some amorphous material scattering, air scattering, TDS, etc which one might account for using a proper model. So they will scale with time while the error part of noise will not. miguel On 19 Feb 2008 at

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-19 Thread gregor
in general, I made the observation that intensity may drop more than expected from theory due to alignment problems. Alignment becomes increasingly critical for smaller divergences as we normally have to sintonize 2 slits, one in the incident and one in the diffracted beam. With low

RE: Kapton capillaries

2007-11-18 Thread gregor
Mike, I tried to make cellulose capillaries as well, but my product came out to be quite fragile. Also, I couldn't find an easy way to fill them. Do you know the tricks? Miguel On 17 Nov 2007 at 10:12, Michael Glazer wrote: There is an old method that I used to use for capillaries that

Re: Strange peaks from grainy Si (data re-attached)

2007-01-25 Thread gregor
Congwu, I'm getting confused with the units of your diffraction patterns, could you just indicate 2theta which is probably the primary observation without any assumption about lambda? Also, I've trouble with your simulated Si pattern: there should be no traces of Zr radiation generated peaks,

Re: Strange peaks from grainy Si (data re-attached)

2007-01-25 Thread gregor
Dear Congwu, as you put it, it definitely seems that you don't get out the MoK radiation from your collimator. Control the alignment and make sure the beam hits your sample. best miguel On 25 Jan 2007 at 9:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Miguel, the unit is the so-called moment transfer

Re: how to find out POLARISATION Factor

2006-06-04 Thread gregor
(Larry) Would it be possible for you to generate the data points for the same set of parameters with peaks at 5 and 10 degrees? That way the asymmetry will be really pronounced and the convolution method will be even more stressed. I don't expect it to make any difference, but I'd like to

Re: RIET: NIST Si 640c cell axis as a function of temperature?

2005-07-04 Thread gregor
¿Sure about the cell parameter? I was used to Hubbard et al (1975) 543.0880(35) pm or Siegert Becker (1984) 543.101988(48) pm which already differ by 4 esd, ¿but now we would have 19 esd? Miguel On 3 Jul 2005 at 3:52, L. Cranswick wrote: Is there an official table of NIST

Re: peak intensity ?

2005-05-11 Thread gregor
(a) graininess or (b) preferred orientation. For (b) you may try if freeing of PO parameters improves refinement. For (a) just grind and pack your sample again and look if this eliminates your intensity problem. best mg On 10 May 2005 at 22:05, ÿJie Peng wrote: Dear all: when i scan

Re: introduction + question

2005-05-06 Thread gregor
I perfectly agree that many times lattice parameters and bond lengths are to be given more confidence than occupation factors. It's the canonical way to distinguish Al and Si in aluminosilicates (e.g. micas) and we applied it successfully also to determine Li-Co exchange in LixCoO2 battery

Re: Level of Preferred Orientation

2005-04-01 Thread gregor
Not sure I understand? If you have a 2D image showing powder rings then you should have some very good ideas about the level of granularity or texture in the sample. Just look for the variation in intensity versus azimuth? Did you mean a one dimensional image plate? One way to reduce

Re: Change format

2005-03-30 Thread gregor
your data are free format with intensities as a real variable. Using excel or any equivalent you can convert in integer intensities (e.g. multiplying by ten to avoid errors with low values) which is the usual data input (counts). Step 2 is then to convert the free 2th-I (real-integer) file

Re: Space group of Si standard in XRD

2005-02-03 Thread gregor
if I remember well, Fd-3m and 5.43Å. BTW, don't trust the flat plate sample distributed with your Philips goniometer, it is terribly grainy (you can see it with the naked eye) and you will never get a reasonable Rietveld fit with it! miguel On 2 Feb 2005 at 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Rwp versus R(F^2)

2005-01-21 Thread gregor
R(F^2) is a gratis parameter which is not refined. It also depends much on the actual Fobs extraction details which may get tricky if there are many overlapping peaks (subgroup refinement, phase mixtures etc). Try to get R(F^2) from RCALC after a (GSAS) powpref-genles run with almost zero

Re: Right asymmetry

2004-07-23 Thread gregor
tails toward high diffraction angles may be due to stacking faults, a typical example is the 020/110 reflection of kaolinite. For refinement try fiddling with the stec ptec parameters in GSAS, best miguel On 23 Jul 2004 at 11:46, Alan Hewat wrote: Posted for JM. Le-Meins whose email was

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2004-03-27 Thread gregor
Dear Ling Yang, I don't think you really have texture. What your pattern suffers from is graininess which will, of course be modelled by some crazy preferred orientation if you allow to refine it. To avoid graininess, 1- make a proper sample preparation 2- open in plane divergence, especially at

Re: x-ray scattering factors values for B-1

2001-09-06 Thread gregor
On 5 Sep 01, at 15:35, stefano agrestini wrote: Thank you very much Miguel, But it doesn't help, because my samples are ionic and the boron has -1 or -2 ionic state, while in the atmdata.dat file for GSAS there are only x-ray scattering factors values for B. Dr. Stefano Agrestini La

Re: x-ray scattering factors values for B-1

2001-09-05 Thread gregor
On 5 Sep 01, at 10:43, stefano agrestini wrote: Dear all, Could anyone give me the x-ray scattering factors values for B-1 ? Is fundamental for the Rietveld analysis of my x-ray powder diffraction data. Thank you very much Dr. Stefano Agrestini La Sapienza University of Rome Physics

Re: RIET: R-factors variation for bond-restrained vs unrestrained refinements

2001-04-16 Thread gregor
Lachlan, As data may be poor for many reasons, results may be unstable in many ways. In my experience, elimination of the restraints in the final refinement cycles gives always some change in parameters, most time small but sometimes it happens that a homeless atom begins to wander/vanish

Re: Difference in GSAS and DBWS/Fullprof

2001-01-06 Thread gregor
I would guess the trouble is coming from differences in the scattering factor of H+, H, H- or whatever you used. But you said that F(110) is similar in GSAS and DBWSFP? Scattering factor, as well as SOF (as somebody proposed), could also give an explanation for the synchrotron:conventional XRD

Re: Oligoclase

2000-11-09 Thread gregor
On 8 Nov 00, at 18:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone provide me the structure for oligoclase, possibly with exact fraction of Ca/Na and Si/Al? Thanks in advance. Ferdinando Costantino. Look at one of the excellent textbooks by JV Smith JV Smith WL

Re: Debye-Scherrer films

2000-04-05 Thread GREGOR
Dear Natale, we use both kodak def 392 and

Re: Debye-Scherrer films

2000-04-05 Thread GREGOR
Dear Natale, we use both Kodak DEF 392 and CEA Reflex 25 which give similar results. The third emulsion actually available is Agfa Structurix D7 which gives a better resolution at the cost of much longer exposure times, also on blue base which makes no sense for our purpose. For digitalization,