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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:51:40 +0200 To: [email protected] From: "A. van der Lee" [[email protected]] Subject: rhombohedral space groups in Fullprof Hi all, I have a problem concerning the refinement of the cell parameters of a rhombohedral space group (R-3c) in Fullprof. The documentation says to use the hexagonal description of the unit cell and that is what I do: a=b, c, alpha=90, beta=90, gamma=120. a and b are the refinable parameters, the angles should be kept fixed. The program tries nonetheless to refine the gamma angle although its code is set to zero. The output shows however that the associated standard deviation is equal to zero. The total number of parameters is four in profile matching mode with constant relative intensities (jbt=3): one scale factor, one zero error and two cell parameters (a and b). The profile parameters are kept fixed for the moment. Who recognises this problem? Thanks in advance. Arie van der Lee ************************************************** Dr. A. van der Lee Institut Europ�en des Membranes Universit� de Montpellier II - cc 047 2 place E. Bataillon 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5 Visiting address: 240 Avenue du Professeur Emile Jeanbrau Montpellier Phone: (33) 467 14 9135 Phone: (alternative) (33) 467 14 9100 FAX: (33) 467 14 9119 **************************************************

Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:09:36 +0200
To: [email protected]
From: Patrick Weisbecker [[email protected]]
Subject: Re: rhombohedral space groups in Fullprof

Hello Arie,

You have to set the same parameter number for gama and a.
for instance for Al2O3:

!     a          b         c        alpha      beta       gamma
   4.771113   4.771113  13.027040  90.000000  90.000000 120.000000
   81.00000   81.00000   91.00000    0.00000    0.00000   81.00000

gama is kept fixed to 120�.

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:17:41 -0400
To: [email protected]
From: "R. A. Young" [[email protected]]
Subject: Re: rhombohedral space groups in Fullprof

Dear Dr. Lee:


This sounds like a problem you would have with DBWS. In that progra, the
solution is to assign the same codeword to gamma that a and b have. The
mathematical reason(in DBWS) is that the calculation is done with
reciprocal space vectors.You will have ht eame problemiwth a hexagonal
space group.

Sincerely,

Ray Young

Prof. R. A. Young
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332  USA
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