Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-07 Thread Nicolae Popa
ce of coefficients is explicitly stated. Hence, if denote by Eij the components of the microstrain tensor in an orthogonal coordinate system  related to crystallite, then the coefficients are some linear combinations (specific to every Laue class) of the averages .   Best wishes,   Nicolae

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-08 Thread Nicolae Popa
and size can not be estimated better. >the fit was quite better > (especially in cases showing stacking faults, with directional effects > hardly approximated by ellipsoids) but remained "phenomenological". The thermodynamics is phenomenological science, have we to consider

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-13 Thread Nicolae Popa
rong staking faults effect? I would accept your challenge, but I'm not sure that with a knife in place of scissors is possible to do easy tailoring. That doesn't mean the knife is good for nothing. Best wishes and ... il faut pas s'enerver Nicolae Popa

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
e. To not risk the next examination probably he will not put this question: how then you searched for size anisotropy in CeO2 with ARIT? Or the symmetry restrictions are optional? Nicolae Popa

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
> Not violating symmetry restrictions you may either > have the sphere with the terms 11=22=33 and 12=13=23=0 > or something else allowing the 12=13=23 terms to be equal > but different from 0. These two possibilities are all you can do > in cubic symmetry with h,k,l permutable. If I am not wrong.

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
> > >(you could be a good boxeur, Armel!), > > Knocked out at round 4 ! Argh ! Some people believe that "fair play" is mainly an Anglo-Saxon apanage (prerogative). Obviously they are wrong. > > Anyway, a sphere was good enough for the previous > size-strain round robin... Hope that the next siz

Re: GSAS informations

2004-04-15 Thread Nicolae Popa
> Dear Prof Popa, > > I had been meaning to implement the quartic form for peak width in a > refinement program for some time, but did not figure out how to generate > the constraints from a general list of symmetry operators. Is there a > simple trick for doing this? I was thinking of just choosi

thick marks shift

2004-06-28 Thread Nicolae Popa
Doinitza, Doinitza, scuze fara rost. Cei mai multi folosesc GSAS, dupa cum vezi Bob a mers la sigur. - Original Message - From: "Doinita E Neiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:35 PM Hello, I am so sorry, I have forgotten to specify that i

Modesty

2004-08-24 Thread Nicolae Popa
CNRS is wrong, but take into account that nobody is a prophet in his own country N. Popa - Original Message - From: "Armel Le Bail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:38 PM > > >And he is modest as well :-) > > I have to be modest. Accord

Re: Anisotropic line broadening in cubic material

2004-08-24 Thread Nicolae Popa
ough robust and you can expect to obtain accurate volume averaged column length as function of direction. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa > > Jens, > > Your effect might be more related to strain than size broadening. You > would have to check widths at various diffraction orders in

Re: Unexpected honour

2004-11-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Don't worry, it is only funny. And now is funny even more (my opinion) Nicolae Popa > Dear Respected Sir, > Have I done anything wrong! I am really scared, because I am not that much sound in english. > I wrote like that because I respect Prof. Armel very much. > > Please

Re: rietveld refinement

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolae Popa
. v35 (2002) 338-346 - self citation too). Nicolae Popa

Re: rietveld refinement

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolae Popa
> > >The diffraction alone can not decide. Significantly different "physical" > >size distributions could describe equally well the peak profile > >(J.Appl.Cryst. v35 (2002) 338-346 - self citation too). > >Nicolae Popa > > Looking at your figures 6b

Re: Unexpected honour

2004-11-19 Thread Nicolae Popa
the same chat list. An alternative, a diversification, does not mean automatically a disidence. Let us not blurred a word very dear to people like me, rising and living most of the life in a dictatorial regime. Yours, Nicolae Popa

Re: rietveld refinement

2004-11-21 Thread Nicolae Popa
ore fun with a size strain round robin on some > complex sample (or even a size-only round robin not on a > cubic compound ;-). I agree entirely. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa

Re: rietveld refinement

2004-11-21 Thread Nicolae Popa
2) 35, 338-346, "Sample 2". It is true that the specific peak profile (that can be "superlorentzian") can not be found in no available Rietveld code. It is also true that no development has been done for anisotropy. Not yet!   Best wishes, Nicolae Popa

Re: rietveld refinement

2004-11-22 Thread Nicolae Popa
aused by strain and size for all Laue groups in Rietveld refinement, N. C. Popa, J. Appl. Cryst. (1998) 31, 176-180." Could I be so stupid to say that such kind of works, including mine, are nothing? Best wishes, Nicolae Popa

Re: Size distribution from Rietveld refinement

2004-11-23 Thread Nicolae Popa
> gamma, or whatever we assume it to be. On the former, it is easy to see if > observed profiles can't be successfully fit ("super-Lorentzian" peak shapes, > for instance), which means that the TCH peak shape cannot be used. However, > an assumption that physically broadened profiles (size and str

Re: Size distribution from Rietveld refinement

2004-11-23 Thread Nicolae Popa
d to cancel one week before from an unexpected family problem. Keep in touch. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa

Re: spherical hamonics

2005-02-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
ogram must have an option for Bragg-Brentano to avoid this trouble, ask the authors. Good luck, Nicolae Popa > Hi everyone, > > I tried to use spherical harmonics incorporated in EXPGUI/GSAS for > modelling a preferential orientation in my sample. I used a cylindrical > sample sy

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-26 Thread Nicolae Popa
different with the strain profile caused by different types of dislocations, possible mixed? Best wishes, Nicolae Popa > Best approach is to develop physical models for the line profile broadening and test them for their plausibility i.e. model selection. > > Good luck. > > Bes

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-26 Thread Nicolae Popa
uals for statistical mathematics. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa > Hi, > I pointed out that each model needs to be tested and their plausibility determined. This can be achieved by employing Bayesian analysis, which takes into account the diffraction data and underlying physics. > >

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-28 Thread Nicolae Popa
gt; deconvolution (or any > > other sophisticated deconvolution method that can imagine) give the > > answermuch precisely? Both, the least square and deconvolution are > > ill-posed > > problems, but the least square is less ill-posed than the > > deconvolution. At

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-04-07 Thread Nicolae Popa
tructure of materials", Springer-Verlag. > [3] Armstrong, N. et al. (2004c), "X-ray diffraction characterisation of > nanoparticle size and shape distributions:--Application to bimodal > distributions", > Proceedings of the Wagga-Wagga Condense Matter Physics & Materi

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
tainly not, if the programmer wish to use exclusively TCH and nothing else. Why? I don't know. Note that TCH is an empirical profile that reasonably approximate a Voigt function (not the tails) that contains an empirical constraint: that FWHH of Lorenz and Gauss components are equal one to another and equal with that of the whole psudoVoigt. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
>Dear Nicolae, >Maybe ya ploho chitayu i ploho soobrazhayu, but even after your>explanation I can't see a way to calculate from the results of>fitting described in chapters 6 & 7 of JAC 35 (2002) 338-346. From such>fitting you obtain only dispersion parameter c. Or I missed something?>Anywa

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
nzian profiles were reported from a long time, only were interpreted as coming from bimodal size distributions. And third, you see, people have difficulties to extract size distribution from the Rietveld codes as they are at this moment.   Nicolae Popa   A word from a "prov

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
be discounted in any discussion about the occurence of super Lorentzian effects in real samples. Bob     R.B. Von Dreele IPNS Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4814   -Original Message-From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: T

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread Nicolae Popa
Voigt) sample to see if a) the fit is the same and b) the eta>1 was an artifact. Any takers to settle this? Bob     R.B. Von Dreele IPNS Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4814   -Original Message-From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Nicolae Popa
Title: Message Alan,   (i) but a sum of two Lorentzians is not sharper than the sum of two pVs (Voigts)?   (ii) We  fitted the exact size profile caused by the lognormal distribution by a pV (for low lognormal dispersion) or by a sum of maximum 3 Lorenzians (for large lognormal dispersion). T

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Nicolae Popa
Bob, A "nice" math. description amenable to RR exists, take a look at JAC(2002) 35, 338-346. "Nice" because the size profile is described by a pV (at "regular" lognormal dispersions) or by a sum of maximum three Lorentzians (at large lognormal dispersions - those 3% that Alan spiked about). The b

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Nicolae Popa
Dear Leonid, See coments below. > > Dear Nicolae, > > This arithmetic is clear, thanks, but since you did not specify this > exact way of calculation in the paper it was not evident. There are > several other ways of deriving , for instance: to calculate Dv from > the inverse integral breadth a

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Leonid, The lognormal distribution for particle size is not my modeling (unfortunately), but if you insist, let see once again your equations. = Da + 0.25(DaDv)^0.5 and sigma = (Dv/Da - 1/2)/2 For lognormal distribution first equation becomes: 2=(4/3)(1+c)**2+(1/4)sqrt[2*(1+c)**5] For c=0.05 we

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Title: Message Alen, you right, as far as the profile corresponding to a given distribution is accurately described, any representation is good. Nevertheless, at comparative accuracies, it is not better to use a representation with smaller numbers of parameters? The profile parameters are fu

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Buna Mateo (where from you know Romanian?), I spiked about the "regular" Rietveld programs that operate in the space of measurement. Sure, FFT is a solution, but I'm not sure that is the best solution. Even fast, the calculation of the profile by Fourier transform is longer than to calculate by el

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Title: Message Alan, But the analytical representation of the profile, even by empirical functions, also helps in the analysis of Size/Strain you don't think? You don't agree with 3 Lorentzians even if they are sharper than two pVs? Probably is a reason that I don't see.   Concerning the num

Re: Hyper Lorentzian peak shape

2007-11-27 Thread Nicolae Popa
n TCH pseudo-Voigt this condition is explicitly given). In this case there is no problem with the "deconvolution", that, in fact, is made between two Voigt functions. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa - Original Message - From: "Jon Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: question on size-strain analysis

2008-10-21 Thread Nicolae Popa
(self citation) and other ref. cited there (Langford, Louer, Scardi (2000)) Best, Nicolae Popa - Original Message - From: "Leonid Solovyov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Re: question on size-strain analysis Dear Maxim, Gau

Re: question on size-strain analysis

2008-10-21 Thread Nicolae Popa
citation) and other ref. cited there (Langford, Louer, Scardi (2000)) Best, Nicolae Popa - Original Message - From: "Maxim V. Lobanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Дмитрий А. Павлов" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:20 AM

Re: question on size-strain analysis

2008-10-21 Thread Nicolae Popa
12 495663 Fax: +7 3912 238658 www.icct.ru/eng/content/persons/Sol_LA *** --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Nicolae Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Nicolae Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: question on size-strain analysis To: [EMAIL

Re: calculation of VWDS and SWDS from distributions?

2008-12-09 Thread Nicolae Popa
ns if the user is able to 'run' through the three steps described in section 4.2. but he must be very careful when comparing experimental data with these calculations. Best wishes, Nicolae Popa - Original Message - From: "Leonid Solovyov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: LP factor in the Rietveld refinement

2009-07-27 Thread Nicolae Popa
in the beam scattered j times and u is the unit vector along the scattered beam j+1 Best wishes, Nicolae Popa - Original Message - From: "Leonid Solovyov" To: Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 9:05 AM Subject: RE: LP factor in the Rietveld refinement In principle, th