Principles of powder diffraction -- Experimental setups -- The intensity of a Bragg reflection -- General data reduction -- The profile of a Bragg reflection for extracting intensities -- Instrumental contributions to the line profile in X-ray powder diffraction : example of the diffractometer with Bragg-Brentano geometry -- Indexing and space group determination -- Crystal structure determination -- Rietveld refinement -- The derivative difference minimization method -- Quantitative phase analysis -- Microstructural properties : texture and macrostress effects -- Microstructural properties : lattice defects and domain size effects -- Two-dimensional diffraction using area detectors -- Powder diffraction under non-ambient conditions -- Local structure from total scattering and atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis -- Computer software for powder diffraction.
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A long awaited overview of powder diffraction in modern research include essential theory and introductory material.