Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Olga Smirnova
Dear all, > Let's see if this gets through. I recently moved to APS & my "official" > e-mail address changed but not my "public" one ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > OK, my comments on PDF vs/and Rietveld refinement. ... > I fully agree with Alan's definition of "Rietveld Refinement"; I usually > describe

RE: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Yokochi, Alexandre
M > To: Matteo Leoni; Jonathan Wright > Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr > Subject: RE: PDF refinement pros and cons > > I'm only going to stick my big toe in here on a practical note for > lab-based studies. > I managed to get the Bruker Vantec detector to work with MoKa quite > n

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Robert Von Dreele
Let's see if this gets through. I recently moved to APS & my "official" e-mail address changed but not my "public" one ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). OK, my comments on PDF vs/and Rietveld refinement. First both techniques use the same raw data; one directly & the other after a lot of corrections (some pe

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Dove
To continue ... On 13 Jun 2008, at 14:37, Alan Hewat wrote: Martin gives a good example for which interesting new information was obtained from the PDF function - the fact that the Si-O bond lengths do not change during a structural transition in quartz. But quartz is a rather special case.

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Alan Hewat
Martin gives a good example for which interesting new information was obtained from the PDF function - the fact that the Si-O bond lengths do not change during a structural transition in quartz. But quartz is a rather special case. First of all quartz is simple enough that the Si-O distances might

RE: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Whitfield, Pamela
;ll find out if the Vantec works or whether an high energy optimized Si-strip detector is the way to go. Should be fun! Pam -Original Message- From: Matteo Leoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 13, 2008 8:18 AM To: Jonathan Wright Cc: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: PDF refinemen

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Matteo Leoni
just my two cents.. even if I'm aware that times are not yet mature for a comparison of this type. There is lot of enthusiasm behind the use of the PDF approach and the number of symposia in conferences, as well as the number of talks on the subject is increasing day after day... the true ques

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Martin Dove
Dear all I have to weigh in here as someone who has been using total scattering measurements for some while now. I suggest that since this is a crystallography mail list I should restrict discussion to crystals and not amorphous or nano-crystalline materials. What Bragg diffraction give

RE: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread AlanCoelho
Thanks all for the PDF explanations I think I'm beginning to understand. To summarise what we know: - PDF for powder data is a Patterson function (as Alan Hewat stated) in one dimension that plots the histogram of atom separation - It will show quite nicely the short range order and then possibl

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Favre-Nicolin Vincent
Hi, I've only begun to look at pdf, but it seems to me that pdf is only really interesting if you want to model non-crystalline material (or nano-crystalline), so that there is no long-range periodicity (limited size, defects on the borders, large strain, variation in composition,...)

RE: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Alan Hewat
Oh good ! We are going to have one of those philosophical debates about the fundamentals of Rietveld related refinement, where we can all safely defend different opinions based on our limited personal experience. PDF refinement is great, but is not new. It was known as the "Patterson function" in

RE: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-13 Thread Michael Glazer
Alan I think you are misunderstanding what the PDF method is used for. The idea is to fourier transform directly the whole range of scattering including peaks and background (after removing artifacts in the background due to the diffractometer, air scattering etc). In a highly ordered crystal stru

Re: PDF refinement pros and cons

2008-06-12 Thread Jonathan Wright
Hi Alan, I also find it hard to understand the rationale behind this approach. G(r) can suffer from fourier truncation artifacts due to the finite q range of the data, but there seems to be no such limitation in a model. Isn't there a risk of fitting to truncation ripples with G(r)? As for c