Pearson's Crystal Data
Crystal Structure Database for Inorganic Compounds
Pearson's Crystal Data is a new crystallographic database,
edited by Pierre Villars and Karin Cenzual. It is published by
ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, USA. The "PCD" (as it is typically abbreviated) contains crystal
structures of a large variety of inorganic materials and compounds. The
collaboration between ASM International and
Material Phases Data System, Vitznau, Switzerland (MPDS), aims to
create and maintain the world's largest critically evaluated "Non-organic
database".
The first version of the "PCD" already contains about 150,000 structural data sets (including atom coordinates and displacement
parameters, when determined) for more than 78,000 different phases, roughly
12,000 experimental powder diffraction patterns and about 130,000 calculated
patterns (interplanar spacings, intensities, Miller indices).
The database comes with an innovative retrieval software for Windows PCs developed by Crystal Impact. It offers a large variety of
new elaborate new features which make retrieval of the desired information extremely easy and comfortable.
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