Treatment of hydrogen background in bulk and nanocrystalline neutron total scattering experiments

Katharine Page, Claire Emily White, Eben G. Estell, Reinhard B. Neder, Anna Llobet, Thomas Proffen

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Abstract

Nuclear incoherent neutron scattering contributions present a challenge in the structural characterization of many classes of materials. This article introduces methods for the correction of nanoparticle, bulk crystalline and amorphous powder neutron scattering data with significant incoherent contributions from hydrogen, and describes the effects the corrections have on the resulting atomic pair distribution function data sets. The approach is presented in the context of the PDFgetN data-reduction program [Peterson, Gutmann, Proffen & Billinge (2000). J. Appl. Cryst. 33, 1192].

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)532-539
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Applied Crystallography
Volume44
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Keywords

  • atomic pair distribution functions
  • background subtraction
  • hydrogen background
  • incoherent neutron scattering

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