Conveners
XRAY: Session - 1
- Jozef Bednarčík (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics)
XRAY: Session - 2
- Radomír Kužel (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Praha, Czech Republic)
The elements of crystallography have been introduced many years ago, perhaps already by the work of Kepler (1611) followed by e.g. Miller (indices of crystal planes), Hessel (32 point groups), Bravais (translation types), Fjodorov, Schoenflies (230 space group types) etc. Symmetry was always the crucial in the description.
Powder diffraction (PD) is used for structural and microstructural...
X-ray scattering and diffraction techniques are indispensable tools in modern materials research, providing complementary information on phase composition, crystal structure, microstructure, morphology, and defects over a broad range of length scales. Continuous advances in laboratory X-ray instrumentation, including high-brilliance X-ray sources, improved X-ray optics, and fast, low-noise...
Thin-film materials research is a highly interdisciplinary field of considerable importance for numerous technological applications. In addition to their chemical composition and electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, a thorough understanding of their structure and morphology is essential for fully exploiting their potential and optimizing fabrication processes. This short lecture...
Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis has become a powerful and widely used approach for investigating the local atomic structure of crystalline, nanostructured, and disordered materials beyond the limits of conventional crystallography. By combining total scattering experiments with real-space structural analysis, PDF methods provide direct insight into short-range order, local...
Metallic glasses (MGs) are an advance class of engineering alloys in which the atoms, mainly of metallic elements, are arranged disorderly without creating a crystalline structure. The lack of long-range ordering gives rise to various advantageous mechanical (high yield strength, hardness, large elastic limit…), chemical (corrosion and radiation resistance), electronic and/or magnetic (low...
