著者

金子 耕士

出版者

日本結晶学会

雑誌

日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.61, no.4, pp.237-242, 2019-12-15 (Released:2019-12-15)

参考文献数

24

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Neutron and X-ray are complementary probes for structural study. Whereas X-ray is superior in terms of brilliance and resolution in general, neutron diffraction has better spatial resolution reflecting the difference in scattering medium; electron and nuclei for X-ray and neutron, respectively. This difference results in the fact that neutron diffraction has higher sensitivity to probe thermal vibration and off-center potential in a crystal. Here, as an example, I will show single crystal neutron diffraction study on ‘rattling’ in rare-earth based filled skutterudite compounds.