Multipole electron-density modelling of synchrotron powder diffraction data: the case of diamond

Autor: Helle Svendsen, Philippe Rabiller, Masaki Takata, Jacob Overgaard, Eiji Nishibori, Rémi Busselez, Bo B. Iversen, Makoto Sakata, A. Kurita, B. Arnaud
Přispěvatelé: Centre for Materials Crystallography, Aarhus University [Aarhus], Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica Section A : Foundations and Advances [2014-...]
Acta Crystallographica Section A : Foundations and Advances [2014-..], 2010, 66, pp.458-469. ⟨10.1107/S0108767310014236⟩
Svendsen, H, Overgaard, J, Busselez, R, Arnaud, B, Rabiller, P, Kurita, A, Nishibori, E, Sakata, M, Takata, M & Iversen, B B 2010, ' Multipole electron-density modelling of synchrotron powder diffraction data: the case of diamond ', Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 458-469 . https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108767310014236
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Crystal physics, diffraction, theoretical and general crystallography
Acta Crystallographica Section A: Crystal physics, diffraction, theoretical and general crystallography, International Union of Crystallography, 2010, 66, pp.458-469. ⟨10.1107/S0108767310014236⟩
ISSN: 0108-7673
2053-2733
0567-7394
Popis: Accurate structure factors are extracted from synchrotron powder diffraction data measured on crystalline diamond based on a novel multipole model division of overlapping reflection intensities. The approach limits the spherical-atom bias in structure factors extracted from overlapping powder data using conventional spherical-atom Rietveld refinement. The structure factors are subsequently used for multipole electron-density modelling, and both the structure factors and the derived density are compared with results from ab initio theoretical calculations. Overall, excellent agreement is obtained between experiment and theory, and the study therefore demonstrates that synchrotron powder diffraction can indeed provide accurate structure-factor values based on data measured in minutes with limited sample preparation. Thus, potential systematic errors such as extinction and twinning commonly encountered in single-crystal studies of small-unit-cell inorganic structures can be overcome with synchrotron powder diffraction. It is shown that the standard Hansen-Coppens multipole model is not flexible enough to fit the static theoretical structure factors, whereas fitting of thermally smeared structure factors has much lower residuals. If thermally smeared structure factors (experimental or theoretical) are fitted with a slightly wrong radial model (s2p2 instead of sp3) the radial scaling parameters (`' parameters) are found to be inadequate and the `error' is absorbed into the atomic displacement parameter. This directly exposes a correlation between electron density and thermal parameters even for a light atom such as carbon, and it also underlines that in organic systems proper deconvolution of thermal motion is important for obtaining correct static electron densities.
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