RECORDING AND ANALYSIS OF POLE FIGURES BY COMPUTER

A computer program has been written to produce pole figures using the data from an x-ray texture goniometer. The data are corrected for background and absorption. The pole figure is also stored on magnetic or paper tape in a form suitable for quantitative calculations. As an example, the Hall coefficient of a poly-crystalline sample of a close-packed hexagonal material is computed from the pole figure of the sample in terms of the single-crystal components of the Hall tensor. © 1968 The American Institute of Physics.