THE EFFECT OF DISLOCATION CONTRAST ON X-RAY-LINE BROADENING - A NEW APPROACH TO LINE-PROFILE ANALYSIS

The x-ray line profiles of an ultrafine grained copper crystal, produc ed by equal-channel angular pressing, were measured by a special high resolution diffractometer with negligible instrumental line broadening . The analysis of the line breadths and the Fourier coefficients have shown that taking into account the contrast caused by dislocations on line profiles gives new scaling factors in the Williamson-Hall plot an d in the Warren-Averbach analysis, respectively. When strain is caused by dislocations the new procedure proposed here enables a straightfor ward determination of particle size and strain, the latter in terms of the dislocation density. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.