TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of matrix decomposition algorithms for singular matrices to the Pawley method in Z-Rietveld
AU - Oishi-Tomiyasu, R.
AU - Yonemura, M.
AU - Morishima, T.
PY - 2012/2/9
Y1 - 2012/2/9
N2 - Z-Rietveld is 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 of Z-Rietveld so that it can deal with singular matrices and intensity non-negativity constraints. Owing to these improvements, Z-Rietveld successfully 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.
AB - Z-Rietveld is 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 of Z-Rietveld so that it can deal with singular matrices and intensity non-negativity constraints. Owing to these improvements, Z-Rietveld successfully 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.
KW - Pawley method
KW - Rietveld refinement
KW - Z-Rietveld
KW - computer programs
KW - matrix decomposition
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U2 - 10.1107/S0021889812003998
DO - 10.1107/S0021889812003998
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84859785892
VL - 45
SP - 299
EP - 308
JO - Journal of Applied Crystallography
JF - Journal of Applied Crystallography
SN - 0021-8898
IS - 2
ER -