Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Principles of Powder Diffraction; Chapter 2: Experimental Setups; Chapter 3: The Intensity of a Bragg Reflection; Chapter 4: General Data Reduction; Chapter 5: The Profile of a Bragg Reflection for Extracting Intensities; Chapter 6: Instrumental Contributions to the Line Profile in X-ray Powder Diffraction. Example of the Diffractometer with Bragg-Brentano Geometry; Chapter 7: Indexing and Space Group Determination; Chapter 8: Crystal Structure Determination; Chapter 9: Rietveld Refinement; Chapter 10: The Derivative Difference Minimization Method; Chapter 11: Quantitative Phase Analysis; Chapter 12: Microstructural Properties: Texture and Macrostress Effects; Chapter 13: Microstructural Properties: Lattice Defects and Domain Size Effects; Chapter 14: Two-dimensional Powder Diffraction using Area Detectors: The Experimental Setup; Chapter 15: Powder Diffraction at Non-ambient Conditions; Chapter 16: Local Structure from Total Scattering and Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis; Chapter 17: Computer Software for Powder Diffraction

Reviews

"The book has some excellent contributions that have perhaps seven or eight real highlights.""...an excellent starting point for many researchers and will be a useful addition to the shelves of those people involved with, or actively practising, powder diffraction methods."
*Crystallography Reviews, 1476 - 3508 online*

"The authors of chapters have done a very good job of summarizing current ideas in the field of powder diffraction, and the editors and publisher have likewise maintained the coherence, consistency and quality of the finished product. It provides an excellent bridge between elementary texts and current research literature. I believe that there is room for this book on the shelf (and more importantly, in the hands) of nearly everyone who is using powder diffraction as a research technique. "
*ACA Newsletter, Peter w Stephens*

"This book provides an excellent overview and much detail of the state-of the-art in powder diffraction methods.""Powder diffraction theory and practice will be an invaluable resource for experienced practitioners and new research students alike. It provides an approachable, comprehensive description of modern methods and their computational implementations,..."
*Chemistry World, Review by Prof. J. Paul Attfield, University of Edinburgh, In November issue*