Overview

The Rigaku Miniflex is a fast and efficient benchtop diffraction system producing high-quality results. It can be used in conjunction with the Smartlab​ to further expedite the process of getting high-quality powder and thin-film XRD data.

​Common Research Applications​

• Polymers and fibres

• Polymorphs

• Powder crystallography

• Qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Rietveld analysis

• High and low temperature XRD​
  

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Specifications​

• 600 W Cu X-ray tube source

• D/tex Ultra-​high-speed silicon strip detector (1D) and a scintillation counter detector (0D) available.

• Single sample mount (glass & silicon slides)

• 6-position sample changer

• Air-sensitive sample stage (also compatible with the SmartL​ab​)
  

• Variable incident and diffracted beam slits​

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Measurement Package

• Powder Diffraction only​

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Sample Environment

• General powder diffraction

• Varity of air sensitive holders​

Software​

Control of the instrument is via the Rigaku software on the accompanying PCs. Also available is the PDXL powder diffraction analysis package, for peak calculation, phase identification, Rietveld refinement, a wizard for ab initio crystal structure analysis and access to the Crystallography Open Database (COD).​

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Measurement Options

• Phase identification
  

• Phase quantification

• Percent crystallinity

• Crystallite size and strain

• Lattice parameter refinement

• Rietveld refinement
  

• Molecular structure

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