Application of Mythen detector:In-situ XRD study on the thermal expansion behavior of metal indium

作     者：Rong Du ZhongJun Chen Quan Cai JianLong Fu Yu Gong ZhongHua Wu 

作者机构：Institute of High Energy Physics and University of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Science China(Physics,Mechanics & Astronomy)》 (中国科学：物理学、力学、天文学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第59卷第7期

页      面：62-69页

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学科分类：070207[理学-光学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundationof China(Grant Nos.U1232203,U1432104,11405199,11305198 and U1332107) the special fund on repairing infrastructure and purchasing fixed assets of Ministry of Finance of China 

主　　题：Mythen detector thermal expansion Rietveld refinement XRD indium foil 

摘      要：A Mythen detector has been equipped at the beamline 4B9A of Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility （BSRF）, which is expected to enable BSRF to perform time-resolved measurement of X-ray diffraction （XRD） full-profiles. In this paper, the thermal expansion behavior of metal indium has been studied by using the in-situ XRD technique with the Mythen detector. The indium was heated from 303 to 433 K with a heating rate of 2 K/rain. The in-situ XRD full-profiles were collected with a rate of one profile per 10 seconds. Rietveld refinement was used to extract the structural parameters. The results demonstrate that these collected quasi-real-time XRD profiles can be well used for structural analysis. The metal indium was found to have a nonlinear thermal expansion behavior from room temperature to the melting point （429.65 K）. The a-axis of the tetragonal unit cell expands with a biquadratic dependency on temperature, while the c-axis contracts with a cubic dependency on temperature. By the time-resolved XRD measurements, it was observed that the [200] preferred orientation can maintain to about 403.15 K. While （110） is the last and detectable crystal plane just before melting of the polycrystalline indium foil. This study is not only beneficial to the application of metal indium, but also exhibits the capacity of in-situ time-resolved XRD measurements at the X-ray diffraction station of BSRF.