In recent years, Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) detectors have been widely used in the field of X-ray measurement. These detectors display no readout noise and provide a large dynamic range, high frame rate, small point spread function and no blurring. By combining these advantages of HPC detectors with high-speed...
Takashi Matsumoto, Akihito Yamano, Yuka Murakawa, Harumi Fukada, Masaaki Sawa and Takayoshi Kinoshita
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Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a well-known technique for analyzing the size and shape of proteins in solution. Standard SAXS uses data below about q = 0.25 Å⁻¹. Therefore, SAXS can only provide information regarding size changes in the target molecule, aggregation, and approximate molecular shape. On the...
X-ray fluorescence analysis is an elemental analysismethod that can quickly and nondestructively analyze elements contained in a sample with simple sample preparation. Furthermore, it is widely used for process control and quality control analysis of steel, cement, refractories, and other materials owing to its excellent measurement reproducibility.
Thermal analyzers are widely used in various material fields. Specifically, the DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimeter) is an essential tool for investigating glass-transition temperature and melting points of polymers and pharmaceuticals. In 2017, Rigaku released DSCvesta®, which had a higher sensitivity, better stability, and wider measurement-temperature range than earlier models...
The local structure of materials is closely related to their functional properties, a subject that has been extensively studied for cathode materials, solid electrolytes and anode materials for Li-ion batteries, ferroelectric materials (BaTiO₃) and so forth. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis is widely used to evaluate local structure in materials...