FXD-CSD-GUI: a graphical user interface for the X-ray-diffraction-based determination of crystallite size distributions

Sigmund H Neher; Helmut Klein; Werner F Kuhs

doi:10.1107/S1600576719012159

FXD-CSD-GUI: a graphical user interface for the X-ray-diffraction-based determination of crystallite size distributions

J Appl Crystallogr. 2019 Oct 22;52(Pt 6):1437-1439. doi: 10.1107/S1600576719012159. eCollection 2019 Dec 1.

Authors

Sigmund H Neher¹, Helmut Klein¹, Werner F Kuhs¹

Affiliation

¹ GZG 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.

Keywords: Bragg intensities; FXD-CSD; X-ray diffraction; crystal size distribution; two-dimensional detectors.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant KU920/20-1 to Werner F. Kuhs. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung grant 03G0856B.