Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Nicolae Popa
Leonid, The lognormal distribution for particle size is not my modeling (unfortunately), but if you insist, let see once again your equations. D = Da + 0.25(DaDv)^0.5 and sigmaD = D(Dv/Da - 1/2)/2 For lognormal distribution first equation becomes: 2=(4/3)(1+c)**2+(1/4)sqrt[2*(1+c)**5] For c=0.05

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread alan coelho
Nicolae.Maybe there's no need for a pseuod-Voigt / Lorentzian basedapproximations after all. all the best Alan -Original Message-From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:00 AMTo: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Alan, (i

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Matteo Leoni
buna Nicolae, Not only arithmetic, I think is clear that both R and c were refined in a whole pattern least square fitting. A private program, not a popular Rietveld program because no one has inplemented the size profile caused by the lognormal distribution. not sure no one did.. we're

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-18 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
Nic, Thanks,it will take a while (as usual) to implement. Bob R.B. Von Dreele IPNS Division Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4814 -Original Message- From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:27 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Bob, A nice

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Nicolae Popa
Title: Message Alan, (i) but a sum of two Lorentzians is not sharper than the sum of two pVs (Voigts)? (ii) We fitted the exact size profile caused by the lognormal distribution by a pV (for low lognormal dispersion) or by a sum of maximum 3 Lorenzians (for large lognormal dispersion).

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Nicolae Popa
Bob, A nice math. description amenable to RR exists, take a look at JAC(2002) 35, 338-346. Nice because the size profile is described by a pV (at regular lognormal dispersions) or by a sum of maximum three Lorentzians (at large lognormal dispersions - those 3% that Alan spiked about). The

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-17 Thread Leonid Solovyov
Dear Nicolae, I will comment only upon your last statement because the limitations of your modeling are clear. Well, I don't know where from you taken these formulae but I observe that for spheres of equal radius, then zero dispersion, you have: sigma(D)=5D/4, different from zero! First

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-16 Thread Leonid Solovyov
Indeed you missed something. I presume you have the paper. Then, take a look to the formula (15a). This is the size profile for lognormal. There is the function PHI - bar of argument 2*pi*s*R. Replace this function PHI - bar from (15a) by the _expression (21a) with the argument x=2*pi*s*R.

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread Nicolae Popa
2005 9:11 AMTo: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Bob, If I understand well, you say that eta1 (super Lorenzian) appeared only because eta was free parameter, but if TCH is used super Loreanzians do not occur? Nevertheless, for that curious

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread alan coelho
: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Bob, Perhaps I was not enough clear. Let me be more explicit. It's about one sample of CeO2 (not that from round-robin) that we fitted in 4 ways. (i) by GSAS with TCH-pV (ii) by another pV resulted from gamma

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread Jim Cline
to concentrate on strain, micro strain, surface roughness and then disloactions all the best alan -Original Message- From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:30 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Bob, Perhaps I was not enough clear

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:11 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Bob, If I understand well, you say that eta1 (super Lorenzian) appeared only

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-15 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
, micro strain, surface roughness and then disloactions all the best alan -Original Message- From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 9:30 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS

RE: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Leonid Solovyov
adventures... Yes, profiles can be approximated, but the question is not in approximating profiles. The primary topic of the discussion is Size Strain in GSAS. GSAS and most other Rietveld refinement programs use TCH-pV profile function which provides the simplest and more or less correct way

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
... Yes, profiles can be approximated, but the question is not in approximating profiles. The primary topic of the discussion is Size Strain in GSAS. GSAS and most other Rietveld refinement programs use TCH-pV profile function which provides the simplest and more or less correct way

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Leonid Solovyov
It is not exact what you say, ty ploho cital. 6 7 from JAC 35 (2002) 338-346 gives the size profile - formulae (15a) combined with (21,22) or (20a) combined with (23,24). If you look carefully, these profiles are approximated by pseudo-Voigt or sums of 2 or 3 Lorentzians. These

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
Dear Nicolae, Maybe ya ploho chitayu i ploho soobrazhayu, but even after yourexplanation I can't see a way to calculate R from the results offitting described in chapters 6 7 of JAC 35 (2002) 338-346. From suchfitting you obtain only dispersion parameter c. Or I missed something?Anyway,

RE: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
ECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:14 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Nicolae, Maybe ya ploho chitayu i ploho soobrazhayu, but even after yourexplanation I can't see a way to calculate R from the results offitting described

RE: Size Strain [ In GSAS ??? ]

2005-04-14 Thread Jim Cline
Hi all, Well, I thought I'd weigh in on this with a discussion of an aforementioned SRM project: We are in the final stages of preparing an SRM for determination of crystallite size from line profile analysis. Through the course of his PhD work and NIST postdoctoral position, Nick Armstrong

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
April 14, 2005 7:14 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Nicolae, Maybe ya ploho chitayu i ploho soobrazhayu, but even after yourexplanation I can't see a way to calculate R from the results offitting described in chapters 6

RE: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
gonne, IL 60439-4814 -Original Message-From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:10 AMTo: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Right, is rare, but we have meet once. A cerium oxide sample from a commercial company, c=2.8. I do

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Nicolae Popa
April 14, 2005 8:10 AMTo: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Right, is rare, but we have meet once. A cerium oxide sample from a commercial company, c=2.8. I don't know if they did deliberately, probably not, otherwise the hard work to obtain such curi

RE: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-14 Thread Von Dreele, Robert B.
--Original Message-From: Nicolae Popa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:11 AMTo: rietveld_l@ill.frSubject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS Dear Bob, If I understand well, you say that eta1 (super Lorenzian) appeared only because eta was free parameter,

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-13 Thread Leonid Solovyov
8. The simple modified TCH model (triple-Voigt), used in most major Rietveld programs these days, is surprisingly flexible. It works well for most of the samples (super-Lorentzian is an example when it fails, as well as many others, but this is less frequent that onewould expect) and gives

RE: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-13 Thread Davor Balzar
adventures... Davor -Original Message- From: Leonid Solovyov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:11 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: Re: Size Strain in GSAS 8. The simple modified TCH model (triple-Voigt), used in most major Rietveld programs these days

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-12 Thread Davor Balzar
Voigt function was able to approximate quite different cases. Of course, that is not true in general. -Original Message- From: Matteo Leoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:59 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Size Strain In GSAS Leonid (and others

Re: Size Strain in GSAS

2005-04-12 Thread Miguel Hesiquio-Garduño
:59 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Size Strain In GSAS Leonid (and others) just my 2 cents to the whole story (as this is a long standing point of discussion: Davor correct me if I'm wrong, but this was also one of the key points in the latest size-strain meeting in Prague, right

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-04-07 Thread Nicolae Popa
Hi, Long text but not fully convincing. At least concerning my questions (still posted at the bottom). I'm risking a hurry reply without reading all references (including to be published and PhD Thesis). See comments below. that likelihood term is described by a goodness of fit, say chi-square

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-30 Thread Matteo Leoni
Leonid, Could you, please, give a reference to a study where Dv and Da sizes were derived from the parameters of pseudo-Voight or Voight fitted to simulated profiles for various size distribution dispersions? I did something better (I hope).. at the end of the mesg you find xy data with a

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-30 Thread Leonid Solovyov
Dear Matteo, Thanks for the exercise. From pseudo-Voight fitting I have got Dv=33A, Da=23A, which gives the average size D=21A and the relative dispersion c=0.28 (c = [sigmaD/D]^2). However, I suspect that the actual values you used for the simulation were D~30A and c~0.25. Do I win the F1 GP?

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-30 Thread apu
Dear Matteo, Thanks for the problem. I have used pseudo voigt function to fit the peaks and finally used the program BREADTH and obtained Dv=31 A, Da=18 A. Please send me your simulation parameters, plots/calculations. Regards, Apu /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Apu Sarkar

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-29 Thread Matteo Leoni
Leonid (and others) just my 2 cents to the whole story (as this is a long standing point of discussion: Davor correct me if I'm wrong, but this was also one of the key points in the latest size-strain meeting in Prague, right?) Your recipe for estimating size distribution from the parameters

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-29 Thread Leonid Solovyov
done several times... With a whole pattern approach and working directly with the profile arising from a distribution of domains, in most cases you're able to recostruct the original distribution without making any assumption on its functional shape (after all, most of the information to do

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-28 Thread Nicolae Popa
Hi, So, to resume your statements, by using Bayesian/Max.Entr. we can distinguish between two distributions that can not be distinguished by maximum likelihood (least square)? Hard to swallow, once the restored peak profiles are the same inside the noise. What other information than the peak

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-28 Thread Aaron Celestian
: www.du.edu/~balzar -Original Message- From: Leonid Solovyov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:49 AM To: rietveld_l@ill.fr Subject: RE: Size Strain In GSAS On Friday 03/25 Davor Balzar wrote: Paragraph 3.3 of the article

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-28 Thread Jim Cline
Hi, Nick Armstrong has advised me he will in non-email-land for a week or so. I'm sure he'll resume this discussion when he returns... Jim At 03:45 PM 3/28/2005 +0400, you wrote: Hi, So, to resume your statements, by using Bayesian/Max.Entr. we can distinguish between two distributions that can

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-26 Thread Nicholas Armstrong
* *** - Original Message - From: Davor Balzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 25, 2005 7:05 pm Hi Apu: As everybody pointed out, there are better ways (for now) to do the size/strain analysis, but GSAS can also be used if observed, size

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread Luca Lutterotti
Dear Apu, I know I will start up a good debate here, but size-strain analysis with GSAS is a non-sense. The program was not written with that purpose in mind and in fact it does not contains the instrumental aberration part of the broadening that is necessary for such computation. Indeed

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread apu
et. al. Journal of Applied Crys. 37(2004)911-924. In that round robin results they have reported the size strain obtained from GSAS. I my case also when I am trying with GSAS, the diffraction pattern is fitting well except the peak braodening. I think this brodening is due to small domain size

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread Andreas Leineweber
Dear all, I think the statement that one cannot do line-profile analysis using GSAS is too strong. In principle it is possible to do some size strain analysis using GSAS, if the instrumental profile is e.g. sufficiently described previously by the Thompson-Cox-Hastings (TCH) profile function

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread Luca Lutterotti
. Balzar et. al. Journal of Applied Crys. 37(2004)911-924. In that round robin results they have reported the size strain obtained from GSAS. I my case also when I am trying with GSAS, the diffraction pattern is fitting well except the peak braodening. I think this brodening is due to small domain

Re: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread Jim Cline
Lutterotti On Mar 25, 2005, at 12:55, Andreas Leineweber wrote: Dear all, I think the statement that one cannot do line-profile analysis using GSAS is too strong. In principle it is possible to do some size strain analysis using GSAS, if the instrumental profile is e.g. sufficiently described

RE: Size Strain In GSAS

2005-03-25 Thread Davor Balzar
Hi Apu: As everybody pointed out, there are better ways (for now) to do the size/strain analysis, but GSAS can also be used if observed, size-broadened and strain-broadened profiles can all be approximated with Voigt functions. Paragraph 3.3 of the article that you mentioned explains how were