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QUAD - QUAntitative Diffraction
A software toolbox for x-ray dynamical diffraction for strained crystals
About
QUAD is a scientific software to calculate the x-ray scattering of light of strained crystals by solving the Maxwell-equations exactly. Because of it's general approach it is capable to simulate a lot of x-ray techniques including powder diffraction, Laue scattering, x-ray absorption XAS, x-ray reflectivity, x-ray diffraction, multiple diffraction. Its strength is especially in the soft x-ray regime where dynamical effects can be very important.
Features
- Stable and fast algorithm for simulation of light-scattering within strained crystals.
- Full treatment of absorption, multiple scattering and multiple diffraction
- Script language interface (LUA) for maximum flexibility
- Parallelized algorithms for best performance
- Variable light polarizations and polarization filters
- Different interface roughness models
- Processing of optical-constant databases
- Choose accuracy of the algorithm from kinematical approximation to a full dynamical approach
- Fitting routines for measurement data
- 10 Tutorials