X-RAY DIFFRACTION (XRD)
CEMAS houses two X-ray diffractometers, a Rigaku SmartLab and a Rigaku MiniFlex. The MiniFlex is a compact easy-to-use Bragg-Brentano unit optimized for powder diffraction measurements. The SmartLab is a "Swiss Army Knife" that can be configured in a number of different ways.
XRD Instruments at CEMAS
XRD Resources
File format conversion
Peak Fitting and Rietveld
QualX2 – use together with their POWCOD database
GSAS-II - the standard for Rietveld analysis
FullProf
Profex
Jana
MAUD
HyperSpy - general purpose data processing toolbox
Pole Figure, Texture, and Orientation Analysis
ATEX
BearTex
MTEX
StereoPole
EBSD.info - information on EBSD and texture.
X-ray Reflectivity (XRR)
Free Crystallographic databases
COD – Crystallography Open Database – over 400k entries (32GB unzipped)
AMSCSD – American Mineralogist Society Crystal Structure Database (primarily minerals)
Tutorials
http://www.materials.ac.uk/elearning/matter/
X-ray Diffraction Tutorials
Well done site with microscopy and diffraction tutorials
MIT X-ray diffraction tutorial