COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF DIFFRACTION DATA
                      Deane K. Smith

8.0  Introduction
8.1  Types of numerical diffraction data
8.2  Reference numeric DATABASES for powder diffraction
     analysis
  8.2.1  Powder Diffraction File
    8.2.1.1  PDF-1
    8.2.1.2  PDF-2
    8.2.1.3  PDF-3
  8.2.2  NIST Crystal Data
  8.2.3  NIST/Sandia/ICDD Electron Diffraction Database
  8.2.4  FIZ-4 Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
  8.2.5  NRCC Metals Structure Database
  8.2.6  Mineral data databases
8.3 Analysis of d-I data
  8.3.1  Processing of d-I data sets
  8.3.2  Identification of mineral phases
    8.3.2.1  Mini and mainframe routines
    8.3.2.2  PC-based Search Routines
  8.3.3  Indexing of unknown d-spacing data
    8.3.3.1  Cell reduction and lattice evaluation
  8.3.4  Unit-cell refinements
  8.3.5  Unit-cell identification
  8.3.6  Quantitative analysis
  8.3.7  Test for preferred orientation
  8.3.8  Structure analysis using integrated intensities
8.4  Analysis of digitized traces
  8.4.1  Processing of raw digitized data
  8.4.2  Location of peak positions and intensities
  8.4.3  Crystal structure analysis
    8.4.3.1  Structure Modeling
    8.4.3.2  Structure Refinement (X-ray only)
  8.4.4  Quantification of crystallite parameters
    8.4.4.1  Quantitative phase analysis
    8.4.4.2  Crystallinity
    8.4.4.3  Crystallite size and strain
  8.4.5  File building and transfer
8.5  Structure display programs
8.6  Analytical packages
8.7  Miscellaneous programs
8.8  General comments and disclaimer
8.9  Sources for programs
8.10 References