Section outline

    • Let's review the essential aspects of crystallography which we have to remember when dealing with X-ray diffraction

    • There are two mathematical procedures, Fourier-transformation and Convolution, which will be used occasionally in different parts of this course. Let's try to understand how they work.

    • There are two approaches which can explain the origin of X-ray diffraction: an easy one and the correct one. We will go through each of them.

    • Interestingly, but usually when dealing with X-ray diffraction we actually mean powder X-ray diffraction which in contrast to single-crystal diffraction is less informative but not that demanding in terms of sample preparation and that's why so widely used.

    • Now let's learn how to extract structural information from powder X-ray diffraction. We will start with simple manual analysis and then proceed with specialized software.