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Published on: June 19, 2018
FXD-CSD-GUI: a graphical user interface for the X-ray-diffraction-based determination of crystallite size
Sigmund H Neher1, Helmut Klein1, Werner F Kuhs1
1GZG Crystallography, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstrasse 1, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.
Abstract:
Bragg intensities can be used to analyse crystal size distributions in a method called FXD-CSD, which is based on the fast measurement of many Bragg spots using two-dimensional detectors. This work presents the Python-based software and its graphical user interface FXD-CSD-GUI. The GUI enables user-friendly data handling and processing and provides both graphical and numerical crystal size distribution results.
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