Physics
2010. 12. 1.
Shape factor (X-ray diffraction)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_factor_(X-ray_diffraction) A shape factor is used in x-ray diffraction and crystallography to correlate the size of sub-micrometre particles, or crystallites, in a solid to the broadening of a peak in a diffraction pattern. In the Scherrer equation, where K is the shape factor, λ is the x-ray wavelength, β is the line broadening at half the maximum intensity (F..