RE: 2-teta shift due to sample displacement in parallel beam

2017-02-02 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
Many, many, many years ago in a galaxy far away I wrote a paper that probably no-one read that had some systematic data on this for a double mirror parallel beam system (second mirror as an ‘analyzer’) in flat-plate theta-theta geometry. This setup is much more sensitive to displacement than mos

RE: The passing of Hugo Rietveld

2016-07-19 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
This is a very sad day for the powder diffraction community. Any words I write here cannot add in any meaningful way to the email that was received by members of the mailing list earlier today. What I can say is that discussions will start behind the scenes (and sometimes in front of them) to co

RE: structure solution terminology

2015-12-17 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
How about 'brute force with some educated guesswork'! Brute force is a nicer way of putting it than blind luck :-) See how that goes with reviewers! Pam -Original Message- From: rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr [mailto:rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr] On Behalf Of A. van der Lee Sent: Thursday, 17 D

RE: Apologies... The "No Attachment" rule.

2015-05-11 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
After reading the slew of emails that landed in my inbox over the last couple of days I'll put my hat on as CPD chair and put my head above the parapet (hopefully not to be shot at) The IUCr (and others) have tried to get journals to use powder cifs and checkcif for structures for some time

RE: Quantification and rietveld refinement

2014-09-06 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
You would be well advised to do some background reading on microabsorption as it will be pretty bad with those two phases and limit the accuracy you may realistically expect in your quantification Pam From: rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr [mailto:rietveld_l-requ...@ill.fr] On Behalf Of Nelson Sent:

RE: Re[4]: Polarization factor por Ge (111) monochromator

2014-04-07 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
calculate a value via ray-tracing? It strikes me as a little surprising that we are all buying these, but the associated corrections are not well documented... jools ____ From: Whitfield, Pamela S. [whitfiel...@ornl.gov] Sent: 07 April 2014 21:31 To: Art

RE: Re[4]: Polarization factor por Ge (111) monochromator

2014-04-07 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
nt: Monday, 07 April, 2014 3:14 PM To: Whitfield, Pamela S. Cc: Julian R Tolchard; rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re[4]: Polarization factor por Ge (111) monochromator Hi everybody, Nobody is trying to be prickly (at all)! The topic has been started with particular case for Panalytical machines, an

RE: Re[2]: Polarization factor por Ge (111) monochromator

2014-04-07 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
Now, now no need to be prickly To be fair to Julian he didn't ask what the polarization was - he asked how it was calculated. Given that Goebel mirrors are graded multilayers (i.e. not a fixed diffracting angle) it's a fair question and one I asked myself in 2001. As the 'minute quote' demonstr

RE: limitation sherrer formula

2014-01-07 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
Nelson (and others) The Scherrer equation is a quick and easy method to get a feel for relative sizes for data from the same instrument and is still a useful tool in that regard. However, beware of relying on absolute values from the Scherrer equation in work to be submitted for peer review. De

Erice School presentations

2013-09-20 Thread Whitfield, Pamela S.
Hiya folks Just a quick notice. All the retrievable presentation videos (flash video format) from the Erice powder diffraction school have been collected together and are now available to view on the CPD website at http://www.iucr.org/resources/commissions/powder-diffraction/schools/erice2011