Abstract
X-ray and neutron diffraction measurements have been made on amorphous ZrPd samples prepared by three different techniques, fast quenching (FQ) from the melt, mechanical alloying (MA) and mechanical milling (MM). An important feature of our samples is the small differences between the weighting factors for the partial structure factors (PSFs) and the pair density functions for both X-ray and neutron radiations. This was exploited to investigate the effect of the preparation method on the final structure of these samples. The results showed that the structure factors
S(
Q) and the reduced radial distribution functions
G(
r) of these samples prepared by different methods are similar and independent of the way used for producing them.