PS RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
Dear Rietvelders: P.S. I should mention that with that background of only 2 counts, the maximum signal was around 2000 counts. Thanks to everyone for all the help so far. - Kurt -Original Message- From: Jon Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
Hi Jon, Funny you should mention the background... it was very low, as you say. Above 30 degrees the background averaged only 2 counts, with a minimum of 1 count and a maximum of 3 counts, throughout the rest of the spectrum. Scan time was 2 hours. I also found that there was some kalpha2 in the

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Lubomir Smrcok
BTW, there are no statistically sound weights in Rietveld refinement :-) Lubo On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Von Dreele, Robert B. wrote: Hi Kurt, If you plot the results in POWPLOT & do the "statistical analysis" what does the delt/sig vs 2-theta plot look like? If weights are right then the band of d

RE: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
Hi Kurt, If you plot the results in POWPLOT & do the "statistical analysis" what does the delt/sig vs 2-theta plot look like? If weights are right then the band of delt/sig ought to be roughly 2-3 sig wide. Is your data in cpm? Some instruments make that by default. That will mess up the R-facto

Re: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Jon Wright
Kurt Leinenweber wrote: ... with wRp of 25% and crystallographic R also near 25% .. Maybe the background is too low :-? Jon

Re: advice on new powder diffractometer

2008-02-15 Thread Jose marcos Sasaki
Dear Kurt, The only thing that I remember is to change cos(2theta) of monochromator in polarization factor or precisely calculate the polarization factor for n-reflection in the monochromator. Regards Sasaki Kurt Leinenweber escreveu: Hi All, I am attempting to assist others to choose a new