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QPDA – A User-Friendly, Interactive Program for Quantitative Phase and Crystal Size/Strain Analysis of Powder Diffraction Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

I.C. Madsen  and
R.J. Hill
I.C. Madsen
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, P.O. Box 124, Port Melbourne, 3207, Victoria, Australia.
R.J. Hill
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, P.O. Box 124, Port Melbourne, 3207, Victoria, Australia.
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Abstract

Recent developments in the Rietveld method for the analysis of powder diffraction data have seen the method evolve from its original purpose of crystal structure refinement to include the determination of phase abundance in polycrystalline mixtures and the estimation of crystal size and strain parameters. However, the Rietveld method is not easy to use and may deter many powder diffractionists, who are not interested in structure refinement per se, from using the method in its non-structural applications.

In order to overcome the difficulties in using the Rietveld method, a program, QPDA (for Quantitative Powder Diffraction Analysis), has been written that sets the conditions necessary for a single or multi-phase refinement, runs the Rietveld program and extracts phase abundance and size/strain information from the refined parameters. The program comprises a user-friendly, default-driven system of subroutines, written initially in VAX Fortran, and operates from a database of inorganic materials frequently encountered in a wide range of minerals and materials science industries.

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Research Article
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Powder Diffraction , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 195 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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