Dear Alberto, >From my experience, negative Biso or Boverall values may indicate that microabsorption effect was ignored. You may attempt to refine Cp and tau. Example is follow:
__________________________________________________________________ 9 !Number of refined parameters ! ! Zero Code Sycos Code Sysin Code Lambda Code MORE ->Patt# 1 -0.0362 11.00 0.00000 0.00 0.00000 0.00 0.000000 0.00 1 ! ! Microabsorption coefficients for Pattern# 1 ! P0 Cod_P0 Cp Cod_Cp Tau Cod_Tau 0.0000 0.00 1.8553 0.00 0.0423 0.00 ____________________________________________________________________ Cheers, Vyacheslav __________________________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 12:24:14, you wrote: AM> Dear all, AM> I've got a problem with the Rietveld refinements of synchrotron data. AM> I'm using Fullprof and the problem is that the overall B, and then also AM> some of the isotropic displacement parameters, fall down to negative AM> values. I'm not very experienced in the treatment of synchrotron data and AM> may be I put some errouneous input in the PCR file, but I cannot understand AM> what. AM> Thanks in advance for your helpful suggestions, best regards AM> Alberto Martinelli -- Best regards, Vyacheslav mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]