Application of Powder Diffraction Methods to the Analysis of Short- and Long-Range Atomic Order in Nanocrystalline Diamond and SiC: The Concept of the Apparent Lattice Parameter (alp)

Abstract:

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 94)
• Pages: 203-216
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.94.203
• Online since: June 2003
• Authors: Bogdan F. Palosz, Ewa Grzanka, Svetlana Stelmakh, Stanislaw Gierlotka, Roman Pielaszek, Ulrich Bismayer, H.-P. Weber, Th. Proffen, W. Palosz
• Keywords: Lattice Parameter, Nanocrystal, Powder Diffraction, Short Long-Range Order

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