Rietveld refinements on laboratory energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXD) data

Abstract

Rietveld refinements of corundum, a rutile and anatase nanocrystalline synthetic mixture, and gypsum, on laboratory energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXD) data are reported. Cell parameters, positional and displacement parameters are in reasonable agreement with single-crystal reference data, despite the rather poor resolution of EDXD data. In particular, good results were obtained for gypsum (unrestrained refinement) with counting times as short as 1000 s.