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David R Black (Fed)

Research Interests

  • The development, manufacture and certification of Standard Reference Materials for the x-ray diffraction community.

 

X-ray Powder Diffractometer
Figure 1: The divergent beam x-ray powder diffractometer used to certify Standard Reference Materials.

Awards and Honors

  • U.S Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, 1998

Publications

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Data and Software Publications

Diffraction Data for SRM 660c

Author(s)
David Black, James Cline, Marcus Mendenhall
The data from this instrument consists of sets of measurements of Xray intensity as a function of diffraction angle. Almost all of it is collected using scintillator point detector with a graphite
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022
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