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MATCHDB - A Program for the Identification of Phases Using a Digitized Diffraction-Pattern Database

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Deane K. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences and Materials Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Gerald G. Johnson Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences and Materials Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Susan Q. Hoyle
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences and Materials Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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The availability of automated powder diffractometers, APD, has revolutionized the collection of diffraction data and allowed many improvements in the analysis of these data. The biggest change is the ease of digitizing the diffraction trace rather than preparing it as a strip chart on paper from an analog recorder. When the data are collected properly, the trace is a digitized record of intensity versus 2θ. The trace is an accurate representation of the diffraction pattern containing the sample information along with the spectral and instrument aberrations.

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VIII. Qualitative and Quantiative Phase Analysis by XRD
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1990

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