An Workshop On Rietueld Refinement Analysis

The main focus of the event is the understanding of the fundamentals of crystallography, and implementation of Rietveld refinement analysis of powder diffraction data of functional materials like ferroics and multiferroics. The first three and half days would cover fundamental crystallographic topics starting from crystallographic symmetry and its application to two- and three-dimensional crystallographic point and space groups, symmetry relations between space groups including group-subgroup and group-supergroup relationships, crystal-structure descriptions and comparison. The last two and half days would be devoted to discussions on reciprocal-space construction and diffraction, X-ray powder diffraction, theoretical basis as well as strategy of Rietveld refinement analysis.

The workshop on Rietveld refinement analysis is also based on intensive hands-on sessions using the computer programs of the FullProf Suite. The FullProf software will be used as the platform for Rietveld refinement.