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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
The use of whole-pattern matching techniques for phase identification provides increased confidence in the phases determined compared with d-I matching and enhances the potential for determining the existence of phases present in low concentrations. Reference patterns from a database of selected phases were compared with the experimental pattern obtained from an unknown, and the results were ranked using figures-of-merit designed to distinguish the best pattern matches. Several different figures-of-merit have been evaluated, all of which proved successful in recognizing the strongest phase but varied with respect to the other phases.
Low-concentration phases are revealed when the patterns of the more abundant phases are stripped from the experimental trace using the best-fit scaled reference traces. Pattern stripping is improved by pattern shifting and profile shape matching which are provided for in the matching program.