Welcome to tds2el’s documentation!

Tds2el is an open source package for quantitative and model-free analysis of thermal diffuse x-ray scattering from single crystals. The program allows to extract the full elasticity tensor from the measured scattering intensity distribution as described in Ref [1]. The main functionalities are:

  • Fit of elastic constants for arbitrary crystal symmetry with interactive selection of scattering intensities
  • Simulation of scattering intensities for given elastic tensor
  • 3D reconstruction of scattering intensities and visualisation compatible with Chimera and PyMca
  • Peak hunting on large data sets
  • Refinement and visualisation of scattering geometry and lattice parameters compatible with CrysAlis and PyMOL

For the measurement strategy and formalism please refer to Ref [1] and references therein.

Alessandro Mirone and Bjorn Wehinger Grenoble and Geneva 2017

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Licence

TDS2EL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

TDS2EL is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with TDS2EL; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

TDS2EL follows the dual licensing model of Trolltech’s Qt and Riverbank’s PyQt and cannot be used as a free plugin for a non-free program.

Please contact the ESRF industrial unit (industry@esrf.fr) if this license is a problem for you.