Dear participant of the NVK Powder Diffraction School 2017,
We look forward to meet you at the school on Tuesday and Wednesday. The venue is the Reactor Institute Delft, which is building 50 on the TU Delft Campus. There are busses 40, 69 and 174 which will bring you from the main train station to the Reactor Instituut at the Mekelweg 15 in 12 minutes.
Tuesday 21 November 2017
| 09h30 – 10h00: | Registration + coffee/tea |
| 10h00 – 11h15: | Crystalline materials (keywords: lattices, crystal systems, point groups, space groups, poly/isomorphism) |
| 11h15 – 11h30: | coffee/tea |
| 11h30 – 13h00: | Introduction to (powder) diffraction theory (keywords: Bragg’s Law, Laue indices, structure factor, preferred orientation, systematic absences, peak broadening) |
| 13h00 – 13h45: | lunch |
| 13h45 – 14h15: | Powder diffraction instrumentation (keywords: laboratory vs large scale facilities, optics, diffraction geometries, detectors, specimen preparation, non-ambient diffraction) |
| 14h15 – 15h15: | Lab tour XRD and ND |
| 15h15 – 16h00: | Crystallographic Databases (keywords: data flow, CSD, ICSD, PDF, COD, Dutch Cheminformatics Consortium) |
| 16h00 – 16h15: | coffee and tea |
| 16h15 – 18h00: | Exercises and basic interpretation |
| 19h00 | Dinner |
Wednesday 22 November 2017
| 09h00 – 11h00: | Interpretation of powder diffraction patterns(keywords: background correction, , peak search, indexing, profile fitting, Rietveld refinement) |
| 11h00 – 11h15: | coffee / tea |
| 11h15 – 13h00: | Powder diffraction and practical applications (keywords: phase identification, quantitative analysis, structure determination, texture analysis, stress, strain and defects, amorphous content, pair distribution function) |
| 13h00 – 13h45: | lunch |
| 13h45 – 14h15: | do’s and don’ts |
| 14h15 – 17h30: | Treat your own data Workshop |
See you on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 November!
The NVK Education Team