Determination of crystallite size of a polycrystalline sample using X-ray diffraction
1 What is X-ray diffraction (XRD) primarily used for in the study of metals and alloys?
2 Which of the following parameters can be estimated from the XRD plot (I vs. 2θ)?
3 Which equation is commonly used to estimate crystallite size from XRD data?
4 In Bragg's Law, what does the variable 'd' represent?
5 What effect do small crystallite size and microstrain generally have on the diffraction peaks in XRD analysis?
6 In the Scherrer equation, which of the following factors does 'K' represent?