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GSAS (General Structure Analysis System) Rietveld powder diffraction and Single Crystal software

GSAS - and DLS (Distance Least Squares) Refinement

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[The reference to use for GSAS in any resulting publications is: A.C. Larson and R.B. Von Dreele, "General Structure Analysis System (GSAS)", Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LAUR 86-748 (1994).]

GSAS - and DLS (Distance Least Squares)

When doing DLS in GSAS, one problem you may encounter in EXPEDT is that the " L - Least squares refinement set up" menu option will not be available if you have turned off all the histograms/diffraction data.

One way around for the purpose of being able to change the least squares options is to temporarily enabled a Histogram; then disable it again prior to performing the DLS.

Bob von Dreele also suggests a short cut for doing this below:


Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:51:33 -0700
To: "L. Cranswick" 
From: vondreele@lanl.gov (Bob Von Dreele)
Subject: Re: GSAS and DLS

Dear Lachlan,

It's neat that "DLS" works - I had tried it several years ago with 
distances & a dummy diffraction pattern. Your problem (feature) is the way 
expedt is supposed to work. Hope you don't mind switching use of that 
histogram back & forth. If you look at the exp file at the record with 
"HTYPn"; the "*" says don't use this histogram & " " to use it. Since 
changing it in expedt & getting at the L-S stuff is awkward - it might be 
easier for you to change it by hand.

Bob


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