Recommended Sources

John M. Cowley, Diffraction Physics, 2nd (1981) or 3rd (1995) edition, North Holland (Elsevier) - Scattering theory, nice general approach

Ron Jenkins & Robert L. Snyder, X-ray Powder Diffraction, (1996), Wiley - excellent on instrumental aspects of powder diffraction

Vitalij K. Pecharsky & Peter Y. Zavalij, Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural Characterization of Materials, (2003), Kluwer Academic - excellent all-around advanced introduction to x-ray crystallography, with lots of powder diffraction example problems

L. A. Aslanov, G. V. Fetisov, & J. A. K. Howard, Crystallographic Instrumentation, (1998), Oxford - good treatment of instrumental aspects with emphasis on single crystal diffractometry

Aaron D. Krawitz, Introduction to Diffraction in Materials, Science, and Engineering, (2001), Wiley - excellent all-around introduction to x-ray diffraction