UCSD faculty, staff and students should contact tmvogel@ucsd.edu for information on accessing the Powder Diffraction File.
Powder Diffraction File (PDF-5+) contains 442,600+ inorganic and 623,000+ organic entries to ensure that you have the data you need for all of your phase identification needs. Every entry is editorially reviewed and assigned quality marks, so the curated PDF-5+ database allows users to do quantitative analysis by any of three methods: Rietveld Analysis, Reference Intensity Ratio (RIR) Method, or Whole Pattern Fitting.
For clarification, PDF here means Powder Diffraction File and not the PDF as in Adobe .pdf files.
For more about PDF-5+, please consult the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) tutorials.
