confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread prasunsc
Dear all, I am very new with GSAS and some confusions arrised to me during refinement. I will be very much grateful if anyone helps me by giving the explanations of the following facts.. 1. what the parameter POLA stands for(is it polarization factor??)? is it necessary

Re: confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, friend, Following are my opinions due to my experience, responding to your questions: 1, In principle, POLA should not be refined. To get sensible value of POLA, please just simply consult the technique support of your instrument or ask colleagues who use radiation tubes of the same type.

Re: confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Dreele: Your response about my comment 1 is convincing which i did not care much about. Thanks for your correction. i appologize to all for this incorrect comment. Faithfully Jun Lu -- Lst. Prof. Lijie Qiao Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry University of Science and Tech

Re: Re: confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread prasunsc
Dear all, So, for the case of a brag brenteno diffractometer without any monochromator, will the value for POLA should be fixed to zero?? Another problem is that, negative value is coming in trns when i am refining it. is it physically acceptable?

Re: confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread Brian H. Toby
On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for the case of a brag brenteno diffractometer without any monochromator, will the value for POLA should be fixed to zero?? There are two GSAS polarization models (read the manual!), but my recollection is that for IPOLA=0, P

RE: confusion about some GSAS parameters

2008-08-07 Thread Kurt Leinenweber
Hi all, The GSAS manual is great, and so is GSAS - but in the case of IPOLA and IPOL, I have to admit that the GSAS manual is ambiguous, so I had to do the following recently when I had to set up a new diffractometer: Do a Google search on the word IPOLA, and the first entry will be a wonderf

Background subtraction

2008-08-07 Thread Yetta Porter
Hello all,   We utilize a Mar 345 image plate to collect x-ray diffraction rings from powder through a transmission configuration. It appears that the image plate generates a large background that increases as 2theta angles increase. Does anyone know of software or some type of procedure that I