X–Ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials

Rene Guinebretiere is a senior lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Ceramiques Industrielles in Limoges, France, and teaches X-ray diffraction. His research activities are the study of materials using X-ray diffraction at the SPCTS International Laboratory in France.

Preface. Acknowledgements. An Historical Introduction: The Discovery of X-rays and the First Studies in X-ray Diffraction. Part 1. Basic Theoretical Elements, Instrumentation and Classical Interpretations of the Results. Chapter 1. Kinematic and geometric theories of X-ray diffraction. Chapter 2. Instrumentation used for X-ray diffraction. Chapter 3. Data processing, extracting information. Chapter 4. Interpreting the results. 5. Scattering and diffraction on imperfect crystals. Part 2. Microstructual Analysis. Chapter 6. Microstructural study of randomly oriented polycrystalline samples. Chapter 7. Microstructural study of thin films. Bibliography. Index.