Investigation of the Experimental Effects on the Quality of the Rapid Acquisition Pair Distribution Function (RA-PDF) Data

Series of experiments have been carried out to investigate the quality of the recently developed rapid acquisition atomic pair distribution function (ra-pdf) method, which combines the uses of high energy x-rays and an image plate area detector. image plate data for simple elements (c, mg, al, si, ni, cu, zn, ag, and pb) have been analyzed, using (ra-pdf) technique. the affect of undiscriminated compton and fluorescence is investigated for a wide range of materials with atomic z numbers ranging from 6 (carbon) and 82 (pb). we find the ra-pdf method is capable of obtaining high quality pdfs where quantitatively reliable structure information can be extracted.