Match! Function List

• Fast single and multiple phase identification from powder diffraction data
• Use the ICDD PDF-2 database (or PDF-4 with the upcoming version 1.2) and/or your own diffraction data or patterns calculated from crystal structure data (e.g. CIF files) in phase identification
• Comfortable user database manager for easy maintenance of user data (add/import/edit/delete/sort entries)
• Fully integrated handling of your own diffraction data with PDF data (search-match, retrieval, data viewing)
• Automatic residual searching with respect to identified phases
• Automatic raw data processing: α2-stripping, background subtraction, peak search, error correction
• Comfortable manual editing of peaks (add/shift/delete) using mouse or keyboard
• Semi-quantitative analysis (Reference Intensity Ratio method)
• Straight-forward usage of additional knowledge (composition, PDF subfiles, crystallographic data, color, density etc.)
• Integrated database retrieval system and viewer for PDF and user datasheets
• Multiple step undo/redo
• Support for new PDF entry numbers (9 digits)
• User-configurable automatic operation
• Full parameter control with instant rearrangement of the results list
• Automatic d-value shifting during search-match process (optionally)
• Intensity contribution to figure-of-merit can be reduced for preferred-orientation cases
• Comfortable graphical and tabular comparison of peak data and candidate patterns
• Mouse-controlled pattern graphics zooming and tracking
• User-configurable HTML-reports
• Supported diffraction data file formats: Stoe (*.raw, *.pks), Philips/ PANalytical (*.rd, *.udf, *.udi), Bruker/Siemens V3 (*.raw), Siemens (*.uxd), DBWS (*.rfl, *.dat), ASCII profile (start, step, intensities or 2 columns), ENDEAVOUR peak list (2 columns: 2theta/d intensity; *.dif)

System requirements

• Personal Computer with Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 or XP operating system
• Reference pattern database (ICDD PDF-2 or PDF-4 (with version 1.2) (recommended)) and/or own powder diffraction patterns or crystal structure data (e.g. CIF files))
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher
• 64 megabytes of RAM (128 megabytes recommended)
• Hard disk with minimum 100 megabytes of free disk space
• Graphics resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels with 32,768 colors ("High Color")