The Debye-Waller factor and the diffusion process for hydrogen in Nb, Ta, and V single crystals investigated by neutron spectroscopy

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Lottner ◽  
A. Heim ◽  
T. Springer
1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Behr ◽  
H. Metzger ◽  
J. Peisl

Integrated X-ray Bragg intensities from Nb single crystals have been measured as a function of H concentration and scattering vector along high-symmetry directions. The observed attenuation can be described in terms of a static Debye–Waller factor (DWF) due to the static displacements of the Nb lattice atoms around the dissolved H. The crystals were loaded with H in situ on the X-ray diffractometer. The static DWF was determined from the ratio of the intensities from a crystal with and without H. Corrections are necessary for several magnitudes which change with the lattice-parameter change and the change of the thermal displacements upon the uptake of H. The measured static DWF is proportional to the H concentration c(H/Nb) for c≤0.30 and the square of the scattering vector K 2 for small K, as expected from theory. From analysis of the static DWF the static displacements of the Nb atoms closest to the H impurity u 1 = 0.1 Å were determined.


Author(s):  
T. Geipel ◽  
W. Mader ◽  
P. Pirouz

Temperature affects both elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons in a crystal. The Debye-Waller factor, B, describes the influence of temperature on the elastic scattering of electrons, whereas the imaginary part of the (complex) atomic form factor, fc = fr + ifi, describes the influence of temperature on the inelastic scattering of electrons (i.e. absorption). In HRTEM simulations, two possible ways to include absorption are: (i) an approximate method in which absorption is described by a phenomenological constant, μ, i.e. fi; - μfr, with the real part of the atomic form factor, fr, obtained from Hartree-Fock calculations, (ii) a more accurate method in which the absorptive components, fi of the atomic form factor are explicitly calculated. In this contribution, the inclusion of both the Debye-Waller factor and absorption on HRTEM images of a (Oll)-oriented GaAs crystal are presented (using the EMS software.Fig. 1 shows the the amplitudes and phases of the dominant 111 beams as a function of the specimen thickness, t, for the cases when μ = 0 (i.e. no absorption, solid line) and μ = 0.1 (with absorption, dashed line).


1989 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 1135-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Shukla ◽  
H. Hübschle

1982 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Garcia ◽  
A. A. Maradudin ◽  
V. Celli

IUCrJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsunetomo Yamada ◽  
Hiroyuki Takakura ◽  
Holger Euchner ◽  
Cesar Pay Gómez ◽  
Alexei Bosak ◽  
...  

The detailed atomic structure of the binary icosahedral (i) ScZn7.33quasicrystal has been investigated by means of high-resolution synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction and absolute scale measurements of diffuse scattering. The average atomic structure has been solved using the measured Bragg intensity data based on a six-dimensional model that is isostructural to the i-YbCd5.7one. The structure is described with a quasiperiodic packing of large Tsai-type rhombic triacontahedron clusters and double Friauf polyhedra (DFP), both resulting from a close-packing of a large (Sc) and a small (Zn) atom. The difference in chemical composition between i-ScZn7.33and i-YbCd5.7was found to lie in the icosahedron shell and the DFP where in i-ScZn7.33chemical disorder occurs on the large atom sites, which induces a significant distortion to the structure units. The intensity in reciprocal space displays a substantial amount of diffuse scattering with anisotropic distribution, located around the strong Bragg peaks, that can be fully interpreted as resulting from phason fluctuations, with a ratio of the phason elastic constantsK2/K1= −0.53,i.e.close to a threefold instability limit. This induces a relatively large perpendicular (or phason) Debye–Waller factor, which explains the vanishing of `high-Qperp' reflections.


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