2025 ICDD Products
The PDF Databases are designed to solve your material problems.
X-ray Diffraction (XRD) is a technique used for determining a crystalline material’s atomic and molecular structure, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. Powder XRD is used extensively to identify phases by measuring the diffraction angles and intensities of these diffracted beams and comparing the resulting diffraction pattern to a reference database of diffraction data.
Release 2025 of the Powder Diffraction File™ (PDF®) contains 1,104,137 material data sets. Each data set contains diffraction, crystallographic, and bibliographic data, experimental, instrument, and sampling conditions, and select physical properties in a standard standardized format.
The Powder Diffraction Standard
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Comprehensive Mineral Collection
Phase Identification + Value
XRD Pattern Processing
PDF-5+ 2025
- Rapid phase identification designed to support automated quantitative analyses
- Features 1,104,100+ entries
- 457,800+ inorganic entries
- 650,200+ organic entries
- 626,140+ entries with atomic coordinates
- Integrated data mining software
- All entries have digital patterns for use in total pattern analysis
- 997,300+ entries have I/Ic values for quantitative analysis by Reference Intensity Ratio
- Combines powder and single crystal data
- Includes crystalline, semi-crystalline, and amorphous solid-state materials
- World’s largest and most diverse collection of structures for inorganic materials
- Extensive data mining is facilitated with 139 display fields coupled with 85 searches
- LPF entries have a link to mpds.io
- One (1) year license serviced by subscription
PDF-5+ Server Edition
- Built for Teams of Ten or More
- PDF-5+ database can float between users
- Install the database on your server and on as many computers as you wish
- When it’s time for the latest database, your renewal is simplified with one single product
- A 10-User license provides access to 10 computers at a time and floats among an unlimited number of systems
- Combine PDF-5+ with JADE Pro
PDF-4/Axiom 2025
- Cost-effective
- Single License: Three (3) year license term
- Optional: Two (2) additional seats (three-year license term)
- Six (6) year and nine (9) year prepaid packages
- New license available after term expires
- Featuring 110,800+ selected data entries, including inorganic and organic entries
- 80,700+ entries with atomic coordinates
- Number of entries with I/Ic values: 79,500+
- Extensive data mining is facilitated with 139 display fields coupled with 82 searches
- Data focused on ambient entries
- Fundamental mineral entries
- ICDD data mining software SIeve+ Included
PDF-4/Minerals 2025
- Rapid phase identification, plus support for automated quantitative analyses
- Features 53,400+ entries, including 43,900+ entries with atomic coordinates
- Integrated data mining software
- All entries have digital patterns for use in total pattern analysis
- 41,300+ entries have I/Ic values for quantitative analysis by Reference Intensity Ratio
- Combines powder and single crystal data
- Classified by IMA designations
- A subset of the PDF-5+ database with all the features and capabilities targeted to minerals and mineral-related compounds
- Extensive data mining is facilitated with 139 display fields coupled with 85 searches
- One (1) year license serviced by subscription
PDF-2 2025
- Features 359,400+ entries
- 252,600+ entries have I/Ic values for quantitative analysis by Reference Intensity Ratio
- Integrated data mining software
- SIeve search-indexing software included
- Combines powder and single crystal data
- Rapid data mining with our 55 display fields coupled with 75 searches
- Five (5) year license
JADE Pro
- Phase ID (Search/Match)
- Batch processing Whole Pattern Fitting (WPF) and Rietveld
- One-Click-Analysis™ for Whole Pattern Fitting (WPF)
- Pattern Indexing (All Crystal Systems)
- Rietveld Structure Refinement (Atomic Parameters)
- ab Initio Tools (Charge Flipping +)
- Cluster Analysis of Powder Patterns
- Hardware Independent – supports a wide range of diffractometers
- Floating Network License – can work as a shareable multi-seat license
ICDD’s COLLABORATIVE
PARTNERS INCLUDE:
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), Cambridge, UK
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ), Karlsruhe, Germany
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Material Phases Data System (MPDS), Vitznau, Switzerland
Linus Pauling File (LPF)
WHO WE ARE
The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD®) is a non-profit scientific organization dedicated to collecting, editing, publishing, and distributing powder diffraction data for the identification of materials. The membership of the ICDD consists of worldwide representation from academe, government, and industry.
DIFFRACTION DATABASES YOU CAN TRUST
The Powder Diffraction File™ (PDF®) is the only crystallographic database that is specifically designed for material identification and characterization. It is an analysis system that is comprised of crystallographic and diffraction data. These data with embedded data mining and analysis software have been through a quality and classification editorial review system.
ISO Certified
ICDD database operations based in Pennsylvania, USA is the only crystallographic database organization in the world with its Quality Management System ISO 9001:2015 certified by DEKRA.
