Nanoparticle size distribution estimation by full-pattern powder diffraction analysis
Materials Science
2008-12-02 v1
Abstract
The increasing scientific and technological interest in nanoparticles has raised the need for fast, efficient and precise characterization techniques. Powder diffraction is a very efficient experimental method, as it is straightforward and non-destructive. However, its use for extracting information regarding very small particles brings some common crystallographic approximations to and beyond their limits of validity. Powder pattern diffraction calculation methods are critically discussed, with special focus on spherical particles with log-normal distribution, with the target of determining size distribution parameters. A 20-nm CeO sample is analyzed as example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502583,
title = {Nanoparticle size distribution estimation by full-pattern powder diffraction analysis},
author = {A. Cervellino and C. Giannini and A. Guagliardi and M. Ladisa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502583},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. B