Analyse des bandes de diffraction affectées par une fonction défaut instrumentale

A turbostratic layer lattice is characterized by asymmetric X-ray diffraction bands the shape of which is a function of the average diameter L of the two-dimensional scattering domains. The mathematical relationship between the band shape and L is known. The larger the domains, the narrower and more asymmetric is the band. The band width is also influenced by the instrumental broadening. Consequently the apparent diameter L, is smaller than L. The proposed graphical method allows L to be obtained from L, and from the characteristic parameters of the apparatus. The experimental results can be fitted from the convolution of the theoretical function corresponding to L with the experimentally measured instrumental broadening function.