RE: TOPAS-Academic for Synchrotron and Neutron research centers

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Coelho
From my mobile telephone Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat _____ On 19 May 2017 02:20, "Alan Coelho" wrote: Hi again At least on

RE: TOPAS-Academic for Synchrotron and Neutron research centers

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Coelho
n research centers for academic research work. Work done for clients or by clients of the institution requires the purchase of TOPAS. Sincerely Alan Coelho From: Alan Coelho [mailto:alancoe...@bigpond.com] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 7:16 AM To: 'rietveld_l@ill.fr' Subject: TOPAS-Academic

TOPAS-Academic for Synchrotron and Neutron research centers

2017-05-18 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi all Bruker-AXS has generously granted the distribution of TOPAS-Academic (http://www.topas-academic.net/) to Synchrotron and neutron research centers for academic research work. Work done for clients or by clients of the institution requires the purchase of TOPAS. Sincerely Alan

RE: CrySize error in TOPAS

2016-07-27 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi Luke The weight percents should not differ if CrySize is irrelevant. Can you post a list of the weight percents with and without CyrSize as well as Rwp values. Also, what peak type are using; I hope it's not PVII as it can give incorrect results when the exponent is small leading very long

TOPAS-Academic Version 6

2016-07-04 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi all TOPAS-Academic Version 6 is now available; see http://www.topas-academic.net/. It represents approximately 5 years of improvements. Bruker-AXS TOPAS will be following in the very near future. Cheers Alan ++ Please do NOT attach

Capillary data with odd shaped peaks

2015-06-14 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi all I'm looking for Capillary Specimen data collected in reflection mode which shows odd bumps on the peaks. I'm aware that there are supposed to be odd shaped peaks but I am looking for example data that show it. If anyone has such data and are willing to part with it then let me know. ch

RE: Unit cell accessible volume

2015-06-10 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi Othman >I am, however, interested in finding out whether inserting certain molecules in the voids >(without distorting the structure) is geometrically possible Use distance penalties/restraints such anti-bumping etc. and then minimize on the restraints/penalties by refining the molecul

RE: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook

2015-06-09 Thread Alan Coelho
fr on behalf of Radovan Cerny Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2015 12:03 AM To: Alan Coelho; rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook BTW: I will declare my vested interest in this discussion: I would love for users of programs like GSAS/Fox/TOPAS/Full-prof etc... t

RE: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook

2015-06-09 Thread Alan Coelho
I can never write something and have it interpreted the way I want it to be. The written word is so hopeless – in my hands that is. Alan Hewat wrote: >Hmm ? Are file servers still OK ? Like the Rietveld archive, where people can >already include links to pictures I'm afraid respectfully that li

RE: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook

2015-06-09 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi again all I’m no expert but after some quick googling it seems that wordpress, which seems to fall under GNU-GPL, may be what a contender. It talks to facebook and has 1000s of forum type plugins. Or, how about https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:dokuwiki "DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly

RE: Powder Diffraction Discussion Group on Facebook

2015-06-09 Thread Alan Coelho
Radovan Interesting discussion, html may allow graphics but doesn't still mean e-mailing large files to everyone. Jon: the IUCR also has a facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/iucr.org Not recognizing the pull/power of facebook, twitter, Instagram etc… is akin to IBM not recognizing the

RE: Very small shift in d-space: insanity check

2014-01-07 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi Shay >From Bragg's equation we have: delta_theta = (delta_d/d) Tan(Th) Or, the amount a peak shifts is increases with 2Th but decreases with d-spacing. So at a d-spacing of 2 Angstroms say (200 pm) for a peak at 20 degrees 2Th say we would see a shift in 2Th of:

RE: modification of TOPAS reporting macro

2013-12-03 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi Artem You can output Xo, Iobs_no_scale_pks and its error as follows: phase_out file load out_record out_fmt out_eqn { "%3.0f" = H; " %3.0f" = K; " %3.0f" = L; " %3.0f" = M; " %11.5f" = D_spacing; " %11.5f" = 2 Rad Th; " %11.5f" = Xo; "

RE: Instrumental resolution function

2013-09-16 Thread Alan Coelho
ies of stacked impulse functions. An intense narrow hat represents the beam and wider hats the penetration of the electrons in the tube. Cheers Alan -Original Message- From: Matt Beekman [mailto:matt.beek...@oit.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 2:08 AM To: Peter Y. Zavalij; Alan

RE: Instrumental resolution function

2013-09-15 Thread Alan Coelho
Hi Peter, Mario I happen to have a Ni filter, Cu, LaB6 pattern that has a very similar look to the one sent by Mario. Probably best to look at the 21.35 degrees 2Th peak. The Ni filter cut-off occurs at 20.6 degrees 2Th, the satellite group is hard to see due to the low angle and hence compressio

Registration Deadline for EPSRC-ILL Grenoble Spring Conference

2005-05-12 Thread Alan Coelho
-Original Message- From: Olga Smirnova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:17 AM To: Alan Hewat Dear Dr. Alan Hewat, I am sorry I got know about the spring conference in Grenoble when the deadline to apply for a support passed. Would you please write is there a poss

introduction + question

2005-05-05 Thread Alan Coelho
Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4454 Phone: (301)405-1861 Fax: (301)314-9121 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message----- From: Alan Coelho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:14 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Peter I dont know your chemical s

introduction + question

2005-05-05 Thread Alan Coelho
01)405-1861 Fax: (301)314-9121 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alan Coelho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:03 PM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Alexander: Your problem is quite similar to one I had to solve in my thesis where I had a number of mixed valence

introduction + question

2005-05-04 Thread Alan Coelho
Alexander: Your problem is quite similar to one I had to solve in my thesis where I had a number of mixed valence sites. I also had at my disposal X-ray and neutron data. The method that I will now mention may be manipulated to help. I found the need to match expected stoichiometric results (know

RE: fundamental parameters approach & X'celerator

2005-05-04 Thread alan coelho
>>Its best to use the terms axial plane and horizontal plane to avoid >>confusion. > >Alan, I'm confused! What do you mean by those terms? >I thought "axial divergence" was "beam hits >different points along the two theta axis" - >is that a misconception? John, if you had a point source, a poi

RE: fundamental parameters approach & X'celerator

2005-05-03 Thread alan coelho
Jim Cline wrote: >Alan??? Are you listening? Armel wrote: >>Bruker providing help to analyze Panalytical data ?-). You have thrown the bait and I will bite. I am not an employee of a manufacture and as such I am free to implement as I choose into TOPAS-Academic (TA) and I do this without regard

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread alan coelho
Title: Message Nicolae >To resume, I think (for example) that is better to approximate by a sum of >three Lorentzians (involving 4 profile parameters) than by a sum of two >pVs (involving 5 profile parameters).   I couldnt agree more.   >Concerning the numerical calculation of the profile

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread alan coelho
>For the purists, just redo the calculation starting from different points >and you can evaluate the error in the distribution using a >MonteCarlo-like approach... Leonie, Your error estimation procedure sounds a lot like the "boot strap" method which I think has now gained credibility, see: h

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread alan coelho
Title: Message This is by far the best topic on this list for a long time as opposed to requests for Journal papers which as pointed out by someone else is inappropriate in the first place and illegal in the second.   Nicolae wrote: >(i) but a sum of two Lorentzians is not sharper than the

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread alan coelho
Title: Message Nicolae, Nick, Bob, Leonid,   I have looked at many patterns (recorded by others) and a few cases have shown profiles that are sharper that a Lorentzian; whereby “sharper” means that the integral breadth is smaller than that for a unit area lorentzian.   To put a figure on i

RE: [sdpd] Derivative Difference Minimization

2005-01-21 Thread alan coelho
Leonid Solovyov wrote: > The Derivative Difference Minimization (DDM) program is now freely > available via the web: First impressions - "What a nifty idea". Haven't given thought to all of the ramifications but it certainly does seem to have merits. Cant wait to analyze it myself; put it thr

RE: instrumental correction

2004-11-08 Thread alan coelho
Apu, The basics of instrument contributions to profile shapes for X-ray laboratory data should really be well known by now. UVW (add Z if you like) is a calibration approach that can never fully describe X-ray laboratory data as Gaussians and Lorentzians do not describe the instrument aberration

RE: convertion to a z-matrix model in TOPAS

2004-10-30 Thread alan coelho
Simon, >Presumably the translation component is just the fractional > coordinates of the first atom in my Z-matrix, something >like > >Translate(@ .1, @ .2, @ .3) > >if my first atom is at .1, .2, .3. > >Does anyone know how to go about getting the rotation part, >ie the '?' parts in: > >Rotat

differences between TOPAS-Academic (TA) and TOPAS

2004-10-22 Thread alan coelho
dear all thought I was clear on the differences between TOPAS-Academic (TA) and TOPAS. In any case to save me a lot of writing of separate e-mails I have spelt it out here: http://pws.prserv.net/Alan.Coelho regards alan

RE: troublesome unit cell

2004-10-18 Thread alan coelho
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RE: troublesome unit cell

2004-10-18 Thread alan coelho
- From: Von Dreele, Robert B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan, One of your operators is a typo. "-x+y, y, -z+1/3" should be " Y-X Y 1/3-Z" Bob ____ From: alan coelho [mai

RE: troublesome unit cell

2004-10-18 Thread alan coelho
TechnologyBuilding M12National Research Council Canada1200 Montreal RoadOttawa  ON   K1A 0R6CANADATel: (613) 998 8462 Fax: (613) 991 2384Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ICPET WWW: http://icpet-itpce.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca-----Original Message-From: alan coelho [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: troublesome unit cell

2004-10-18 Thread alan coelho
Pam, As a developer and someone who uses other software to test against, I have been following the discussion with interest. This is a complex area and it goes to show the importance of having a few programs if only for testing purposes. I am puzzled by your cif data however as I cant get past ve

Re: TOPAS-Academic

2004-09-24 Thread alan coelho
e are the plans? I'm interested in auto-generation of restraints for proteins and fourier mapping at the moment... Regards, Jon alan coelho wrote: >Dear all, > >An academic version of BRUKER-AXS TOPAS is now available to >degree-granting institutions comprising universities,

TA download problems

2004-09-23 Thread alan coelho
Dear all, My apologies for those whom may have downloaded the TOPAS-Academic demonstration version as there was an error in the ZIP file due to ftp problems. The problem has been fixed, see: http://pws.prserv.net/Alan.Coelho regards alan

TOPAS-Academic

2004-09-23 Thread alan coelho
Dear all, An academic version of BRUKER-AXS TOPAS is now available to degree-granting institutions comprising universities, university run institutes, laboratories and schools at: http://pws.prserv.net/Alan.Coelho The main aim of TOPAS-Academic (TA) is to provide a low cost but powerful

Re: Philosophical vein

2004-03-19 Thread alan coelho
Picking up on Bob’s point. As an author of a commercial program I don’t see the world coming to an end. In this melodramatic discussion the idea of encouraging young scientists to write the type of software that the community is demanding is fraught with difficulty. Unless of course a scientist c

Re: Combined neutron/x-ray refinements

1999-06-01 Thread alan . coelho
I would like to add my two cents to the discussion on ESDs and weightings. Paolo wrote: > Clearly, the ESD on x1 have worsened in this simple case. This does not > prove the general case, but there might be a proof for that as well. This conclusion was reached by applying non-linear least squ