The atomic pair distribution function: past and present

SJL Billinge - Zeitschrift für Kristallographie-Crystalline Materials, 2004 - degruyter.com
… The atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique has been used for many years to
study disordered materials and liquids. More recently it has also been applied to the …

The rise of the X-ray atomic pair distribution function method: a series of fortunate events

SJL Billinge - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… for obtaining atomic pair distribution functions. Top left: a powder or nanoparticulate sample
is placed in an intense beam of X-rays or neutrons and intensity is collected as a function of …

Structural analysis of complex materials using the atomic pair distribution function—A practical guide

T Proffen, SJL Billinge, T Egami… - Zeitschrift für …, 2003 - degruyter.com
… In this paper we focus on the analysis of the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) obtained
from the total scattering from powder samples. In fact the PDF method was originally applied …

Nanoscale structural order from the atomic pair distribution function (PDF): There's plenty of room in the middle

SJL Billinge - Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2008 - Elsevier
… One very valuable approach, which is gaining popularity for nanostructure studies, is
total scattering and the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of X-ray and neutron …

Lattice dynamics and correlated atomic motion from the atomic pair distribution function

IK Jeong, RH Heffner, MJ Graf, SJL Billinge - Physical Review B, 2003 - APS
… The mean-square relative displacements MSRD of atomic pair motions in crystals are
studied as a function of pair distance and temperature using the atomic pair distribution function

PDFFIT, a program for full profile structural refinement of the atomic pair distribution function

T Proffen, SJL Billinge - Journal of Applied Crystallography, 1999 - scripts.iucr.org
… structural re®nement of the atomic pair distribution function … refinement of the atomic pair
distribution function (PDF). In … The program presented here allows the refinement of atomic

Structure of V2O5·nH2O Xerogel Solved by the Atomic Pair Distribution Function Technique

V Petkov, PN Trikalitis, ES Bozin… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
… by the atomic pair distribution function technique. We show that on the atomic scale the …
of V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O by the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) technique. This technique has …

Fast synthesis and refinement of the atomic pair distribution function

AA Coelho, PA Chater, A Kern - Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
… A fast method for calculating the atomic pair distribution function is described in the context
of performing refinements of structural models. Central to the speed of synthesis is the …

Structure of nanocrystalline materials using atomic pair distribution function analysis: Study of

V Petkov, SJL Billinge, P Larson, SD Mahanti, T Vogt… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
… Here we use the atomic pair distribution function PDF … Using the experimentally derived
atomic coordinates we have calcu… The atomic PDF is a function that gives the number of atoms …

Improved measures of quality for the atomic pair distribution function

PF Peterson, ES Božin, T Proffen… - Journal of applied …, 2003 - journals.iucr.org
… The technique discussed in this article is the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) method.
The PDF is widely used to study glasses and amorphous materials (Wagner, 1978; Warren, …