> we are going to purchase a Fuji image plate system (Fuji BAS-1800) for > our X-ray lab. I am planning to use these plates for powder diffraction
A little off topic, but ILL Grenoble uses Fujii image plate systems for single crystal neutron diffraction (LADI and VIVALDI) eg http://www.ill.eu/instruments-support/instruments-groups/instruments/ladi but is testing equivalent CCD readout scintillator systems http://www.ill.eu/about/movies/experiments/cyclops-first-tests/. The main difference is that neutron versions use different types of image plates/scintillators. Image plates are not expensive, but you still need to unload them and use a relatively expensive machine to read them; given advances in alternative detector technology, I am not sure about their long-term future. Wire detectors for X-ray powder diffraction are also quite expensive, but if a flat image plate can be used at all (?) you might also consider a simple X-ray CCD-scintillator camera of the kind we make for neutrons :-) http://www.neutronoptics.com/cameras.html I have no idea if such a thing would work for X-ray powder diffraction, but would be interested if some-one would like to try. Alan ______________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat ______________________________________________
