Anisotropic temperature factors

2014-12-19 Thread Tuong Dan Vu
Dear all, I'm new to Rietveld. I work with Powder X-ray diffraction and Fullprof. Recently I've done a Rietveld refinement for a compound with the space group P42/nmc (n°137) and during the process I saw a quite high value of Biso of three atoms (~2.5). Then I had to refine anisotropic temperatur

Re: Anisotropic temperature factors

2014-12-19 Thread Maxim V. Lobanov (MSU)
Dear Tuong, From mathematical point of view it is obvious: the refinement yields the physically meaningless values for the components of ADP tensor: the eigenvalues (=lengths of thermal ellipsoid axes) from your values are: -.1079639591e-2, .2901526405e-2, .1633111319e-1 What could be the reaso