Accurate X-ray structure analysis of multi-domain ferroic crystals

The requested beamtime is the key part of the four-years long research project (“Enabling accurate X-ray structural analysis and domains reconstruction in ferroelectric PbZr1-xTixO3 crystals”) granted to our research group by the Israel Science Foundation. We propose designing and customizing the novel type of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data collection that combines a) chemical crystallography, b) high-resolution reciprocal space mapping and c) X-ray topo-tomography. The specific goal of the experiment is to gain a single-crystal quality X-ray diffraction data set from a multi-domain BaTiO3 and two PbZr1-xTixO3 single crystals. We request beamtime at the BM01 beamline, which meets all the experimental requirements