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farhan—a qualitative and quantitative PC program for X-ray powder diffraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Khalid A. AL-Farhan
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, P.O. Box 2455, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

FARHAN is a PC interactive, graphically oriented search–match–identification–quantification computer program for X-ray powder diffraction, which uses a variable intensity-error window (IEW). Both the intensity scale factor and the IEW for each standard phase are estimated by a simple iterative procedure. A new tunable combined figure-of-merit (agreement function) is suggested for estimating the goodness-of-fit of matches. The concentrations of the identified phases may be determined by normalized or generalized RIR quantification methods, if the RIRs of the identified phases are known.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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