Re: Simultaneous refinement of multiple atoms sharing same site

2019-08-31 Thread Larry Finger
On 8/31/19 9:44 AM, Ahmed Subrati wrote: Dear all, I wanted to ask how three atoms, sharing the same xyz position, could be refined in terms of their occupancies /via /FullProf. We know that for the case of two atoms, the first atom is set as 11.0 and the second one as -11.0 so that their sum

Re: Rietveld website cancelled ?

2018-08-29 Thread Larry Finger
On 08/29/2018 02:01 PM, Le Bail Armel wrote: OK, seems that the SDPD book preface looks unclear to some. Western movies adepts well know that sentence : "You see, in this world there's /two kinds/ of /people/, my friend: /those/ with loaded /guns/, and /those/ who /dig/. /You dig/. .." Simil

Re: Rietveld website cancelled ?

2018-08-29 Thread Larry Finger
On 08/29/2018 04:15 AM, Le Bail Armel wrote: Hi, After the IUCr Monograph on Crystallography 13 (2002) entitled "Stucture Determination from Powder Diffraction Data" you may find in the preface : "Although the Rietveld method of structure refinement from powder diffraction data is often loos

Re: Re:

2018-08-13 Thread Larry Finger
On 08/13/2018 03:43 PM, Toby, Brian H. wrote: Dear Henk,    I am not sure if this is what was intended in your commentary and e-mail, but I read from it the point that have heard often over the years, which is that someone is less than fully deserving of scientific credit because “s/he only

Re: The development of powder profile refinement...

2018-08-10 Thread Larry Finger
On 08/10/2018 10:55 AM, Alan Hewat wrote: Thanks Henk (and Bob). It's a story that must be quite common in science. Humans like to simplify, and identify with heros. Humanity teaches us that we stand on the shoulders of others. Few discoveries, especially in science, are made by a single indivi

Re: An additional criterion for the Rietveld method

2017-11-13 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/13/2017 08:54 PM, TSUBOTA Masami wrote: Dear Rietvelters, I'd like to introduce our following article. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-15766-y Accuracy of refinement parameters in the Rietveld method is not so good. We have carefully investigated the reason, focusing on the pea

Re: Stoichiometry and occupancy fractions of solid solutions

2016-12-19 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/19/2016 09:29 AM, Cline, James Dr. (Fed) wrote: Your data is from where? I wouldn’t trust numbers from refinements as these from lab data. Jim James P. Cline Materials Measurement Science Division National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Dr. stop 8520 [ B113 / Bldg

Re: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook

2015-06-08 Thread Larry Finger
I "belong" to Facebook, but I almost never post there. My wife uses one of our Linux machines to read it so that she can keep up with the postings of our children and grandchildren.As it is very easy to get malware from Facebook, she never uses her own computer with Windows 7 as OS. Anything p

Re: regress in crystallographic good practices and knowledge

2015-05-08 Thread Larry Finger
On 05/08/2015 11:16 AM, Kurt Leinenweber wrote: Hi Alan, I still like the Rietveld list and do read all the posts. Is it possible to block attachments so that people can’t attach files any more? -Kurt Thus writes the guy whose mailer blindly attaches a message footer rather than in-lining a

Re: Different atomic coordinates

2008-06-21 Thread Larry Finger
Stanislav Ferdov wrote: Dear All, I am trying to refine a phase that has a structure analogue with different chemical composition. The problem is that using the published atomic coordinates one cannot get a proper refinement (mismatch in the diffraction intensities). When I process the data a

Re: Question on Rietveld with x-ray

2008-04-02 Thread Larry Finger
Jae-Ho Chung wrote: Dear experts on Rietveld with x-ray, When it comes to Rietveld, I have exclusively been working with neutrons. Now I am just trying Rietveld with x-rays, and immediately came up with a question. Since x-ray scatters from electrons, it seems to me that we always have to

Re: Absolute structure from powder data?

2007-11-14 Thread Larry Finger
Franz Werner wrote: > Dear Rietvelders > > Is it in principle impossible to determine the absolute structure from powder > data due to reflection overlap or is there a way via multiple wavelength > diffraction experiments? > > Thanks for your advice. To determine absolute structure, you need t

Re: stresses-crystal structure changes

2007-01-20 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all: > > Let me make you the following question. > > Suppose a polycrystalline coating deposited onto a substrate in such a way > that the coating is subjected to in-plane compressive residual stresses > after the deposition process. The coating has a cubic fcc cry

New Versions of DRAWxtl available

2007-01-18 Thread Larry Finger
The authors of DRAWxtl are pleased to announce the release of V4.3 and V5.3 of our program. As before, V5.3 has a full GUI, whereas V4.3 is command-line oriented with an openGL window displaying the active structure. Note: we skipped V5.2 so that our two series would have the same minor release

Re: Uiso constraints

2006-07-03 Thread Larry Finger
Alan Hewat wrote: Should one first refine lattice parameters and then "fix" them before proceeding with structure refinement? In the early stages of a Rietveld refinement you might want to fix some parameters, for example you might want to refine just zero point, cell constants, scale factor

Re: how to find out POLARISATION Factor

2006-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
AlanCoelho wrote: I would like to conclude that to be critical of a method such as the convolution approach to describing instrument line profiles it would serve authors best to first investigate the approach rather than to be critical of it without substance. Amen! I'm really impressed with

Re: how to find Polarization

2006-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
Will Bisson wrote: Dear Larry, When you removed the soller slits leading to increased the axial divergence, which profile function is appropriate to model this, especially at low angle where the asymmetry is very stark? I used GSAS profile type 3, which incorporates the Finger, Cox and Jephco

Re: how to find Polarization

2006-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, if I well understood JFC correction is perfect in case of parallel incident beam; so, in case of conventional Bragg-Brentano diffractometer, shouldn't it work well only in case of use of Goebel Mirrors, that get incident beam exactly parallel? And is it true tha

Re: stepsize?

1998-11-28 Thread Larry Finger
Keith Rogers wrote: > > Dear All > > I have some fixed wavelength X-ray diffraction data where the step size > in 2-theta is 0.015 degrees. It appears from the GSAS manual that the > step size must be in centidegrees - does this mean that I have to throw > away every other data point ? > > Keit