Powder X-Ray Diffractometer Home Page
Welcome to Materials Science Central Facilities' Diffractometer home page. In it we offer several documents which describe training and operating procedures, detailed specification of the diffractometer, and examples of the types of analyses that we do.

• Campus Authorization Procedure
• Detailed Specifications of the Scintag XDS 2000
• Instrument Training Procedure
• A Word or Two About High-Temperature X-Ray Diffraction
• The Five Fingers of Quartz
• The Effect of Recieving Slit Size on Resolution
• Quantitative Analysis Using the Matrix Flushing Technique
• Crystallite Size Determination, the Scherrer and the Warren-Averbach Methods
• Residual Stress in a Flat Steel Spring
• Importing Scintag Data into a Spreadsheet

Division of Materials Science
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Updated on December 26, 2000

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
USA
Phone: 530/752-0400
Web: www.chms.ucdavis.edu