[sdpd] PowderCell for Windows version 2.3 now available - Le Bail and size/strain features

[L.M.D.Cranswick...@dl.ac.uk (L. Cranswick)]

There is a new "beta" version of PowderCell for Windows
(version 2.3) by Werner Kraus and Gert Nolze.
Powder Cell will visualize structures, perform
classical phase transition structure transformations, 
display the resutling powder patterns and can handle 
multiple structures for quantitative analysis analysis.

For structure determination, PowderCell can be very
useful as if the unknown phase is the result of a 
classical phase transition, PowderCell can take
the known pecursor and apply the structure transformations
at the click of a few buttons.

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The new features of PowderCell 2.3 (over 2.1) are that it
now handles:
   Le Bail fitting
   Size/Strain analysis
   Minor bugs fixed.

Website:
  http://www.bam.de/a_v/v_1/powder/e_cell.html
Mirrors:
  http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/powdcell/a_v/v_1/powder/e_cell.html
  http://ccp14.sims.nrc.ca/ccp/web-mirrors/powdcell/a_v/v_1/powder/e_cell.html

FTP Download site:
  ftp://ftp.bam.de/Powder_Cell/pcw23.exe
  http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/ccp14/ftp-mirror/powdcell/Powder_Cell/pcw23.exe
  http://ccp14.sims.nrc.ca/ccp/ccp14/ftp-mirror/powdcell/Powder_Cell/pcw23.exe

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Lachlan.

PS: There was a recent problem/bug with the CCP14 mirroring
which was not updating the PowderCell website.  This has 
now been fixed.

-- 
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14)
    for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction

4th March to 17th March 2000
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 
Palisades, New York 10964-1000 USA

Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, WA4 4AD U.K
Tel: +44-1925-603703  Fax: +44-1925-603124
E-mail: l.cranswick...@dl.ac.uk  Ext: 3703  Room C14
                           http://www.ccp14.ac.uk