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. 

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Rigaku SmartLab

The CEMAS SmartLab XRD is our most flexible diffractometer. It has the ability to run in many different modes with the system providing guidance for the user in preparing data acquisition.

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Rigaku MiniFlex 600

The Rigaku MiniFlex 600 is a compact benchtop theta:2-theta diffractometer. It is computer controlled and fully capable of providing qualitative and quantitative analyses for unknown powder crystalline materials.

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File format conversion

POWDLL 

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)

REFLEX
MotoFit (Igor software)
 

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 

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