A beryllium dome specimen holder for XRD analysis of air sensitive materials

Powder Diffraction

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-124

  Rodriguez, Mark A ^a   Boyle, Timothy J ^a   Yang, Pin ^a   Harris, Damon L ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Brush Wellman Electrofusion Products   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sensitive; BeD; Beryllium; Reactive; XRD

Indexed keywords

AIR-SENSITIVE; BED; HIGHLY REACTIVE MATERIAL; REACTIVE; RIETVELD STRUCTURE REFINEMENT; SENSITIVE MATERIALS; SPECIMEN DISPLACEMENT; XRD;

DOMES; POWDERS; RIETVELD REFINEMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BERYLLIUM;

EID: 44649156540     PISSN: 08857156     EISSN: 19457413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1154/1.2912452     Document Type: Article

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