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A Reference Database Retrieval System: Information as a Tool to Assist in XRD Phase Identification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

S.O. Alam ,
J.W. Edmonds ,
T. Hom ,
J.A. Nicolosi  and
B. Scott
S.O. Alam
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Co. 85 MCKee Drive, Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2121
J.W. Edmonds
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Co. 85 MCKee Drive, Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2121
T. Hom
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Co. 85 MCKee Drive, Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2121
J.A. Nicolosi
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Co. 85 MCKee Drive, Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2121
B. Scott
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Co. 85 MCKee Drive, Mahwah, N.J. 07430-2121
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A common analytical problem in a X-ray diffraction laboratory is the phase identification of an unknown sample. Presently, most phase identification is either performed manually or through computer search-match programs, as found on automated powder diffraction systems. Whether phase identification is performed manually or with computer search-match, often, the diffractionist wishes or needs to be able to make use of more sample information in the phase identification process than just d-I data. Additional information may be in the diffractionist's possession or can be readily obtained. The types of additional information which can be used in computer search-match programs are currently limited to information in the Powder Diffraction File-1 (PDF- 1) (1), formerly Level I, database (ie., JCPDS sub-files, elemental and functional groups). The use of other information is not possible. Users of manual search procedures are not able to make optimum use of additional information.

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IX. Qualitative and Quantitative Phase Analysis Diffraction Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 32: Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1988 , 1988 , pp. 545 - 550
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1988

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