XRD News from PANalytical

Stjepan Prugovečki , Jan Gertenbach

PANalytical B.V., Almelo, The Netherlands

The “standard” powder diffraction is still by far the most common application of modern diffractometer platforms. The demands for higher intensities, lower background, easiness of use, etc. are increasing, pushing the instrument manufacturers for continuous development of new or improved configurations, modules and software. In this talk we shall present and illustrate applicability of a new Bragg-Brentano^HD optical module and new functionalities implemented in the recent release 4.0 of the HighScore Plus software.

Bragg-Brentano^HD is a new incident beam optical module, significantly reducing background, improving peak/background ratio and increases intensity in powder diffraction application. Bragg-Brentano^HD module is also suitable for SAXS and X-ray reflectivity. Examples and comparisons with other optical modules will be shown.

New functionalities of the HighScore Plus package will be shown and explained , in particularly the Partial Least-Squares Regression (PLSR) module.