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Single Crystal 4

Entered: Mon May 04 2020

Operating systems: MacOS; MS Windows

Type: Binary

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Distribution: Commercial Multi-user, education and student licensing options are available.

Application fields: Diffraction; Electron microscopy

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Description: SingleCrystal is a tool for understanding the diffraction properties of crystalline materials. Designed for physicists, chemists, material scientists and geologists, SingleCrystal 4 can simulate the results of tedious laboratory diffraction experiments - in real time, and from the comfort of your laptop. Observed electron diffraction images can also be analysed and their crystal orientations calculated - saving hours of painstaking measurement and analysis.

References: http://crystalmaker.com/singlecrystal/

SingleCrystal 4 features a brand new design: the source code was rewritten, from scratch, to take advantage of the latest 64-bit multi-core operating systems with high-resolution graphics and multi-touch control. A sleek new interface delivers a streamlined, easy-to-use workflow - and offers real-time adjustment of experimental and sample parameters.

A key feature of SingleCrystal 4 is the ability to simulate multi-phase diffraction - to replicate real-world effects such as “twinning”, topotactic relationships, crystal coatings, and impurities - as well as showing “Kikuchi Lines” in transmission electron microscope patterns and “powder rings” from nano-crystalline samples.

Whilst SingleCrystal 4 can be used as a standalone program - to create new simulations from scratch, or import crystal data files from other programs - it also works seamlessly with CrystalMaker X, allowing users to edit crystal structures at the atomic level (in CrystalMaker) and immediately see how this affects the diffraction properties: an ideal teaching tool!



Last updated: 15 Oct 2021