Dear Matthew, thanks for your reply. I hope to look a bit deeper into it (and try the code) a little later today. At the first glance, however, I'm not sure whether treating hk0 and hkl the same way would be appropriate from the theoretical point of view. But as I'm a practical guy, I will just give it a try.
Thanks again! Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, pressed the wrong button... If you just want to try fitting the peaks, you could try something like this: str phase_name "Metal_oxide" local broad 100 'crys size for hk0 and hkl local sharp 2000 'crys size for 00l local csL = IF (And(H == 0, K == 0, L > 0)) THEN sharp ELSE broad ENDIF; CS_L(csL) 'insert remainder of structure... I don't know much about Lvol, but isn't an "average" crystallite size for a highly asymmetric crystal not all that meaningful? I am willing to be educated here, as I haven't had much need to get accurate crystallite size from diffraction data before.... Cheers Matthew ________________ Matthew Rowles CSIRO Minerals Box 312 Clayton South, Victoria AUSTRALIA 3169 Ph: +61 3 9545 8892 Fax: +61 3 9562 8919 (site) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Frank Girgsdies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2008 22:05 To: Rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Anisotropic peak broadening with TOPAS Dear Topas experts, C) One could leave the spherical harmonics approach and go to a user defined model, which refines different Cry Size parameters for different crystal directions. In my case, two parameters would probably be sufficient, one for the c-direction, and a common one for the a- and b-direction. The Topas Technical Reference, section 7.6.3. gives a similar example of a user defined peak broadening function, depending on the value of l in hkl. I could probably come up with an analogous solution which has a 1/cos(theta) dependence and two parameters, one for the 00l and one for the hk0 case. My problem with this approach is how to treat the mixed reflections hkl. I suppose they should be scaled with a somehow weighted mix of the two parameters, where the weighting depends on the angle between the specific hkl and the c-axis. However, I no idea how a physically reasonable weighting scheme (and the corresponding Topas syntax) should look like. ------------------------------------------ Frank Girgsdies Department of Inorganic Chemistry Fritz Haber Institute (Max Planck Society) ------------------------------------------