XRD at the University of Southampton in the Spotlight
1 Feb 2016
Simon Coles, Senior Lecturer and Director of the UK National Crystallography Service, and Ph. D. student Lucy Mapp discuss how they use Rigaku's FR-E+ rotating anode generator, the XtaLAB mini diffractometer and the MiniFlex powder systems.
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