A Focus on Powder Diffraction Software

摘要

The strip chart recorder is dead! (Well, yes, there are still a few powder diffractometers around with them, but better they be in museum exhibits-I worry about the safety of the associated instruments.) Today, nearly everything we do in powder diffraction requires software. The word processor used to type this is generic in nature, but there are wonderful innovations in both commercial and freely-distributed software that change what we can achieve from our experiments.