Real-Time Simultaneous Wide- and Small-Angle Fibre Diffraction

A combination of two independent imaging area-detector systems controlled by a single data-acquisition system, provides a powerful system for X-ray diffraction studies of time-resolved phenomena over a wide q range, in samples with intrinsic or induced structural orientation. With this system we have observed a transient, tensile-stress-induced, orthorhombic-to-monoclinic transition in high-density polyethylene.