This post is a collection of notes, tips and tricks for using GSAS-II.

  • Multi-phase refinement

    When we have more than one phase in GSAS-II refinement, we should have phase fraction for each of the phases involved. With this regard, we have, suppose we have two phases, three parameters – the overall scale factor and two phase fraction factors. In this case, we cannot let all of these three parameters to be refined since otherwise the program will by a high chance crash due to the strong correlation among these parameters. Instead, we should refine the scale factor together with one of the two phase fraction factors, while setting a constraint to specify that overall phase fraction should be 1. To add the constraint, we should follow the instruction in Ref. [1] (see #3 in Step-I), or here. Here it should be noticed that the phase fraction is referred to as Scale for each phase and this Scale should not be confused with that of the overall histogram.


References

[1] https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/pyGSAS/Tutorials/SeqRefine/SequentialTutorial.htm