Charge flipping combined with histogram matching to solve complex crystal structures from powder diffraction data

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 47-53

  Baerlocher, Christian ^a   McCusker, Lynne B ^a   Palatums, Lukas ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Charge flipping; Histogram matching; Polycrystalline materials; Powder diffraction structure analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847135530     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2007.222.2.47     Document Type: Article

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