Scherrer's Equation - calculating crystallite size using XRD data

Excel spreadsheet containing the Scherrer's Equation calculation (Excel: 16KB)

Powerpoint presentation 'Estimating Crystallite Size Using XRD' by Dr Scott Speakman at the MIT
Center for Materials Science and Engineering (Powerpoint: 2MB)

Please note that you will need to insert peak measurements from your own XRD data set, which can be
obtained using the freeware program X'Pert Data Viewer.
X'Pert Data Viewer can be downloaded onto any University PC. The program exists on an ISS server as a
group policy. To get a copy of X'Pert Data Viewer contact your computing officer in the first instance they are welcome to contact the XRD lab with any issues.
Required peak measurements/characteristics are:

peak positions of the most intense peaks for each crystalline phase you wish to characterise

the miller index for each of those peaks, and

the full-width of each peak (of interest) at half its maximum height (FWHM).

The conversion between degrees and radians is included in the spreadsheet formulae.