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A Second Derivative Algorithm for Identification of Peaks in Powder Diffraction Patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

W. N. Schreiner
Affiliation:
Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
Ron Jenkins
Affiliation:
Philips Electronic Instruments, Mahwah, NJ
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Modern (>1950) data analysis techniques are commonly applied in many scientific fields but their careful application in other fields, including X-Ray diffraction, has been notably lacking or generally confined to the environment of university research. Perhaps this lack of widespread application in XRD can be blamed on the absence of sophisticated computer controlled instrumentation, and, if this is so, the situation should change rapidly, since today's automated diffractometers are driven by very powerful minicomputers with large firm disks and sophisticated operating systems. In such an environment it is entirely practical to implement, on-line, state-of- the-art data analysis techniques, and in this paper we present one such example.

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Use of Computers in Powder Diffraction
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1979

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