13: Crystallography
( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\)
- 13.3: Bragg's Law
- The structures of crystals and molecules are often being identified using x-ray diffraction studies, which are explained by Bragg’s Law. The law explains the relationship between an x-ray light shooting into and its reflection off from crystal surface.
- 13.4: X-ray Diffraction
- The construction of a simple powder diffractometer was first described by Hull in 19171 which was shortly after the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 18952. Diffractometer measures the angles at which X-rays get reflected and thus get the structural information they contains. Nowadays resolution of this technique get significant improvement and it is widely used as a tool to analyze the phase information and solve crystal structures of solid-state materials.