Investigation of the experimental effects on the quality of the rapid acquisition pair distribution function (RA-PDF)‎ data

Abstract EN

Series of experiments have been carried out to investigate the quality of the recently developed rapid acquisition atomic pair distribution function (RA-PDF) method, which combines the uses of high energy X-rays and an image plate area detector.

Image plate data for simple elements (C, Mg, Al, Si, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag, and Pb) have been analyzed, using (RA-PDF) technique.

The effect of indiscriminate Compton and fluorescence is investigated for a wide range of materials with atomic Z numbers ranging from 6 (Carbon) and 82 (Pb).

We find the RA-PDF method is capable of obtaining high quality PDFs where quantitatively reliable structure information can be extracted.