Match! Basics

Match! is a program for phase analysis using powder diffraction data. By comparing the diffraction pattern of an unknown sample to patterns of known compounds stored in a database, it is able (or at least helps) to identify the phases present in the unknown sample (qualitative phase analysis). In most circumstances Match! is also able to determine the amounts of these phases (quantitative analysis).

What you can also do with Match!:

• All kinds of raw data processing
• Search the reference database
• Rietveld refinement (in combination with FullProf)
• Pattern decomposition (Le Bail method) (in combination with FullProf)
• Crystallite size estimation
• Indexing (in combination with Dicvol or Treor)
• Crystal structure solution (along with Endeavour)
• Use other reference databases (e.g. any ICDD PDF database)
• Create and apply a User Database
• Repeating similar analyses
• Controlling Match! using script files

Recommended next reading: The working area

Remarks:

• Match! provides an undo/redo facility. You can undo nearly any operation until you return the new empty Match! document where you started. On the other hand, you can also return to the state before you executed the "undo" command(s) using "redo". You should use these options extensively in order to try different options !
• In addition to the menus, context menus and the toolbar buttons, you can also use a variety of keyboard shortcuts to perform the most common operations. Once you know these shortcuts by heart, your work will become much faster and more efficient.
• If you like, you can add the following citation/reference for Match! in your paper:
  
  Match! - Phase Analysis using Powder Diffraction, Crystal Impact - Dr. H. Putz & Dr. K. Brandenburg GbR, Kreuzherrenstr. 102, 53227 Bonn, Germany, https://www.crystalimpact.com/match