1. ICDD Release 2008 New Features
PDF-4+ Using DDView+ 2008
PDF-2 Using DDView 2008

2. New Features
The 2008 release of ICDD databases boasts an impressive array of new features. This presentation will demonstrate many of these new features using DDView and DDView 2008, ICDD’s own data-mining software. This year, ICDD has:
Increased the power of the user-interface
Added new data and functionality
Optimized searching operations
Enhanced the performance of graphics

3. Alphabetical Prototype Structure Search
The Prototype Structure searches now include the option of searching on alphabetically ordered formulas
Alphabetical order

4. Alphabetical Prototype Structure Fields
Alphabetically ordered Prototype Structures are now shown on the PDF Card
Alphabetically ordered

5. New Display Fields*
The Search Results form has four new display fields, giving a total of 70
Ambient/Non-ambient: The ambient or non-ambient conditions under which the pattern was created
Has Atomic Coordinates: Whether or not the pattern contains atomic coordinate data
Prototype Structure (Alpha Order): The alphabetically ordered Prototype Structure
LPF Prototype Structure (Alpha Order): The alphabetically ordered LPF Prototype Structure
*PDF-4 only

6. Enhanced Search Results Table
Abbreviated data has tooltips
Overflowing data shows ellipses “…”
Database Comments use scrollbars*
Ellipses
Tooltip
Scrollbar
*PDF-4 only

7. Graph Individual Elements*
The Graph Fields form can now graph individual element composition for Weight % and Atomic % display fields
Graph Zn elements
Select individual element
*PDF-4 only

8. Graph Individual Elements*
This is an example of the Graph Fields form, graphing the Author’s Cell a versus weight % of the element Zn
Likely concentration of Zn is 15% if a=3.640Å
*PDF-4 only

9. Clickable X-Y Graph Points
PDF Cards and Diffraction Patterns* can now be opened in the Graph Fields form using the X-Y points
Click X-Y points with mouse
Select an area of X-Y points with mouse
Select area for PDF Cards or Diffraction Patterns
Click for PDF Cards or Diffraction Patterns
*PDF-4 only

10. Footnotes for d-Spacings
The * field, or Footnotes for d-Spacings field, has been added to the PDF Card d-Spacings table
This field shows a number index for a d-Spacing that corresponds to an editor comment
Simply match the number index in the * field with the number index in the Database Comments field

11. Button for full PD3 pattern
PD3 Patterns*
PD3 patterns are now available for over 2,600 entries, including 44 clay materials
PD3 patterns are experimental powder diffraction raw data for selected:
Nano-crystalline materials
Semi-crystalline materials
Amorphous materials
Button for full PD3 pattern
PD3 pattern preview
*PDF-4 only

12. PD3 Patterns*
Kaolinite-1A, a clay PD3 pattern
*PDF-4 only

13. Enhanced Diffraction Patterns*
The graphing package has been upgraded for increased speed
Average Energy value is now available for Experimental and Calculated Pattern radiation
Average Energy
*PDF-4 only

14. Enhanced Electron Patterns*
The Simulated Electron Patterns now show the approximate intensity via the size of the spot
*PDF-4 only

15. Import Experimental Data in PDF-2
Importing experimental data into SIeve, ICDD’s search-index plug-in, is now available in DDView 2008 using PDF
These experimental data operations are now available:
Remove background
Smoothing
Peak finding

16. New SIeve Display Fields
To increase the functionality of the SIeve Matches table, three new display fields have been added
Quality Mark: A flag representing the quality of the pattern
Status: A flag representing the database status of the pattern (Primary, Alternate, or Deleted)
Atomic Coordinates*: Whether or not the pattern contains atomic coordinate data
*PDF-4 only

17. International Centre for Diffraction Data
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