Echidna Applications

High-resolution powder diffraction can be used to:

• Determine structures of newly created materials, to better understand their properties
• Study materials with light elements in the presence of heavy ones (eg. oxides, borides, carbides) and for magnetic materials
• Study hydrogen (as deuterium) in hydrogen storage materials
• Measure strain, crystallite size, and defects in materials such as metals, hydrogen storage and electro-chemical materials, and mesoscopic structures
• Investigate materials with complex crystal structures, including catalysts, hybrid materials, organics, cements, natural minerals, zeolites, and non-linear optical materials
• Study the structural and magnetic phase transitions of ferroic and electronic materials such as superconductors and magnetoresistive materials
• Investigate bulk samples or samples in extreme environments (pressure, temperature, stress, magnetic and electric fields, or combinations of these)