PDF-2
PDF-2 Release 2008 - Purchase
PDF-2 Release 2008, the latest installment of the historic Powder Diffraction File, is designed for inorganic materials analyses using automated diffractometers. Release 2008 contains data from the ICDD experimental powder data collection and data collected, edited and standardized from the NIST and ICSD databases. Many common organic materials from the ICDD are added to this database to facilitate rapid material identification.
Highlights:
- 211,107 entries
(182,634 inorganic & 32,189 organic) - 102,552 experimental entries
- 98,488 entries calculated from ICSD
- 10,067 entries calculated from NIST
- 11,533 new entries
- 2,041 new experimental entries
- 9,492 new entries from the ICSD
Retrieval software, such as ICDD’s DDView or developers’ software, must be used to convert the data from PDF-2 into readable forms. Customers using ICDD’s support software (DDView and SIeve) need to purchase the current versions of the support software. Retrieval software offering search/match capabilities is available from ICDD’s licensed distributors and equipment manufacturers. Check with your software supplier to confirm software compatibility when purchasing or renewing to Release 2008.
Pricing is available for multiyear & site licenses
PDF-4 and PDF-2 Product Feature Comparison
Convert your PDF-2 License to a PDF-4 using Conversion Pricing (pdf)
PDF-2 is licensed for 60 months. At the end of the licensing period, the product license can be extended for an additional 60 months, free of charge, providing that the licensed user has the same organization name and address (i.e. the registered user). License extensions will be processed using ICDD’s license extension procedure. (www.icdd.com/licenses)
DDView 2008 - Purchase
DDView 2008, ICDD’s retrieval and viewing software, is designed to make PDF-2 accessible as a stand-alone database operating in a Windows® environment. DDView provides display, search and data filtering capabilities for the PDF-2 database. Many customers using vendor search/match software, choose to purchase DDView as well, in order to perform further analyses. Each year, DDView is updated to reflect annual changes in the database. Licensing DDView is the best way to stay current with database changes and it strongly complements other viewing and data analysis software.
New search classifications
- Prototype Structure search (alphabetical order)
New graphing capabilities
- Open a PDF card from an x-y point
New PDF entry display
- Prototype Structure field (alphabetical order)
- Footnotes for d-spacings
DDView is licensed for 60 months. At the end of the licensing period, the product license can be extended for an additional 60 months, free of charge, providing that the licensed user has the same organization name and address (i.e. the registered user). License extensions will be processed using ICDD’s license extension procedure. (www.icdd.com/licenses)
ICDD SUITE 2008 - DDView with SIeve- Purchase
ICDD Suite 2008 - DDView with SIeve
ICDD Suite offers the viewing software that you need,
along with search indexing software that you want.
Although available on one CD, DDView and SIeve are
licensed separately. SIeve is available only in the ICDD
Suite, which offers licensing for both DDView and
SIeve. Both DDView 2008 and SIeve 2008 are designed
to work with PDF-2 Release 2008. Customers updating
their PDF-2 must update their software to match the
release year update.
ICDD Suite is licensed for 60 months. At the end of the licensing period, the product license can be extended for an additional 60 months, free of charge, providing that the licensed user has the same organization name and address (i.e. the registered user). License extensions will be processed using ICDD’s license extension procedure. (www.icdd.com/licenses)
Multiyear pricing is available for DDView and SIeve when purchasing multiyear licenses for the PDF-2.
SIeve 2008
SIeve, ICDD’s search indexing software, provides rapid searching and identification of materials using highly automated Hanawalt, Fink and Long-8 searches. While SIeve contains much of the functionality of ICDD’s printed index and search manuals, it takes advantage of the dynamic computing power of modern PCs to rapidly perform permuted searches on hundreds of thousands of data entries. This enables permutations with Fink and Long-8 algorithms that are impractical with print due to their enormous size. SIeve features an automatic rotation of the 3 strongest lines (Hanawalt) or the 8 longest of the strongest lines (Fink) or the 8 longest lines (Long 8) to look for matches that exhibit the best Goodness of Match (GOM). Historically, these rotation operations were anticipated and integrated into paper manual search-index method protocols. In SIeve 2008, automatic rotations can be switched on/off in Preferences. The paper manual search schema always offers a litmus test for searching, namely that all the lines in the unknown pattern are compared against all the lines in the reference pattern(s). To address this comparison, we have implemented a “Pattern GOM” that includes this comparison. The SIeve display allows a further comparison between the standard GOM and the Pattern GOM.
SIeve works with files containing a list of peaks (d-spacing/2-theta and intensity pairs) or files containing full experimental data (2-theta and intensity). A flexible text importer can read a wide variety of input files. SIeve is linked with Global searches and Search Preferences from DDView allowing users to custom define a SIeve input filter based on any of the 46 search method classes or combinations thereof. The results of SIeve can also be integrated into search criteria in DDView.
SIeve is available only in the ICDD SUITE.
New in 2008
- Import full experimental data
- Background smoothing
- Smoothing
- Peak finding - New display fields: “Quality Mark”, “Status”
Pricing is available for multiyear & site licenses.
Special pricing is available for PDF-2 users to convert to the PDF-4 format.
ICDD’s licensed distributors and equipment manufacturers.