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A review of Debye Function Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2013

Kenneth R. Beyerlein
Kenneth R. Beyerlein*
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Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
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Abstract

The employment of the Debye function to model line profiles in the powder diffraction pattern from small crystallites is briefly reviewed. It is also demonstrated that for the case of very small spherical particles, it is necessary to average patterns from multiple constructions of the particle to have complete agreement with reciprocal space models. In doing so it is demonstrated that the technique of Debye function analysis is best suited for systems with only a few possible atomic arrangements.

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nanocrystalline materialsline profile analysisDebye function

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Powder Diffraction , Volume 28 , Supplement S2 , September 2013 , pp. S2 - S10
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 2013 

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