Vibrational Spectroscopy of Binary Titanium Borides: First-Principles and Experimental Studies

Figure 3

X-ray diffraction spectra of (a) powder (H. C. Starck, Germany) and (b) bulk (target, Goodfellow, UK) samples of titanium diboride (TiB₂). Experimental data and the Rietveld refinement are represented by symbols and curves, respectively. Small vertical lines indicate positions of the Bragg peaks corresponding to the TiB₂ phase. The XRD peaks are indexed according to the reference 04-010-8469 [27].

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