Application of matrix decomposition algorithms for singular matrices to the Pawley method inZ-Rietveld
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- 15 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Journal of Applied Crystallography
- Vol. 45 (2), 299-308
- https://doi.org/10.1107/s0021889812003998
Abstract
Z-Rietveldis a program suite for Rietveld analysis and the Pawley method; it was developed for analyses of powder diffraction data in the Materials and Life Science Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. Improvements have been made to the nonlinear least-squares algorithms ofZ-Rietveldso that it can deal with singular matrices and intensity non-negativity constraints. Owing to these improvements,Z-Rietveldsuccessfully executes the Pawley method without requiring any constraints on the integrated intensities, even in the case of severely or exactly overlapping peaks. In this paper, details of these improvements are presented and their advantages discussed. A new approach to estimate the number of independent reflections contained in a powder pattern is introduced, and the concept of good reflections proposed by Sivia [J. Appl. Cryst.(2000),33, 1295–1301] is shown to be explained by the presence of intensity non-negativity constraints, not the intensity linear constraints.Keywords
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