The work offers the reader an introduction into the current state of research of (alkali) borate glasses. It gives a comprehensive theoretical background about X-ray scattering and polyatomic systems reagarding the structure factor and the partial distribution function, explains different approaches in sample preparation, experimental setups and evaluation procedures. The highly automated evaluation program PDFgetX3 is compared with its predecessor PDFgetX2 and described in detail relating to the measured ionic glass system. Eventually the results are compared and discussed.

Katharina Holzweber, was born in St.Pölten, Austria. She studied Physics at the university of Vienna, where she obtained her Master's degree in the field of X-ray scattering and is currently working as a phd at the department of Dynamics of Condensed Systems with her supervisor Prof. Bogdan Sepiol, investigating atomic diffusion in solids.