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Rietveld fit: Si, SEPD

The same staged fit as the Python and Command line tutorials, in the app. Its structure and experiment come from EasyDiffraction's collection with Load ▾ From web…, and each stage frees its parameters in the Parameters table on Analysis before the fit.

Create a project

Press Start on Home, then Create a new project, and give it a name.

Load the structure

On Structure, choose Load ▾ From web…, search for each entry by its id and click it:

  • pd-neut-tof_si-sepd-si

Load the experiment

On Experiment, choose Load ▾ Full experiment From web…, search for each entry by its id and click it:

  • pd-neut-tof_si-sepd-sepd

Measured data from your own disk

Measured data can also come from a file on your own disk: on Experiment, Load ▾ Measured data From file… reads it into the selected experiment, or into a new one when none is selected.

Measured data from a file on your own disk

Estimate the background

On Experiment → Extra, set the number of points under Background estimation, then press Estimate in the Background group on Main.

Estimate the background

Set the minimizer

On Analysis → Extra, set the Minimizer as the case's project does: the Shift/s.u. stop rule and room for more iterations.

Screenshot coming soon

Start with nothing free

On Analysis, open the Free column header of the Parameters table and fix every parameter, so the stages below free one group at a time.

Start with every parameter fixed

Cell, scale and time-of-flight calibration

Filter the Cell and Linked structures parameters, one category at a time, using the category filter and the Instrument parameters with offset in their name using the category filter and the name filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Cell, scale and time-of-flight calibration

Background

The estimated points are a starting point; fit them now that the peaks are in place.

Filter the Background parameters using the category filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Background

Gaussian widths

The background stays free while the widths join. diffraction-lib fixes it for this step and leaves it fixed; here the fit reaches the same result with it free, as every other case does. The Gaussian terms come first.

Filter the Peak broadening parameters with sigma_0 in their name using the category filter and the name filter and the Peak broadening parameters with sigma_1 in their name using the category filter and the name filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Gaussian widths

Lorentzian width

Then the Lorentzian term.

Filter the Peak broadening parameters with gamma_1 in their name using the category filter and the name filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Lorentzian width

Displacement

Filter the Atomic displacement parameters using the category filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Displacement

Peak decay

The back-to-back exponential decay terms β₀ and β₁.

Filter the Peak asymmetry parameters with beta in their name using the category filter and the name filter, click the Free column header and choose Free · all, then press Fit in the status bar.

Fit: Peak decay

Correlations

The Correlations view on Analysis shows which fitted parameters move together.

Inspect the correlations

Report

The Report page collects the structure, the experiment and the fit.

Review the report