Useful Resources
This page provides a non-exhaustive list of useful resources.
- Multi-purpose image processing in ImageJ/Fiji:
- Electron diffraction pattern analysis:
- CrysTBox: numerous tools for indexing patterns, especially useful for complex phases where you want to use a CIF to figure out the zone axis for example. Has loads of other capabilities as well.
- Odpin: simple browser-based tool for indexing SAD patterns
- Get dSpace: ImageJ plugin for automatically measuring the d-spacings of reflections in SAD patterns.
- Radial Profile Plot: ImageJ plugin for calculating the radial profile for polycrystalline (ring) diffraction patterns
- EBSD data processing:
- Spectroscopy (EDX, EELS) data processing: HyperSpy
- An incredibly extensive Python API, forms the basis of numerous off-shoots. Can import most of the commonly used data types.
- (S)TEM data processing:
- Atomap: Python library for analysing atomic resolution STEM images via Gaussian fitting to the atomic columns. Allows for strain analysis, etc.
- TEMMETA: another Python library allowing you do most of the commonly used stuff such as Fourier filtering, geometric phase analysis (GPA) for strain analysis, etc.
- Strain++: program for perform GPA on high resolution (S)TEM images for strain mapping.
- Databases:
- ICSD: inorganic crystal structure database
- Crystallography open database (free)
- American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database: good for geological stuff
- NIST X-ray transition energies search form: useful for EDX
- EELS Atlas: online version of Gatan’s thing, gives lots of info about EELS edge energies, etc.
- EELS DB: database of example EEL spectra
- Ptable: interactive periodic table with oxidation states, properties, etc.
- XPS Periodic Table: basically an XPS version of the EELS Atlas
- NIST XPS Database
- Raman Open Database
- RRUFF: database of Raman spectra for minerals
- Selective colourisation in GIMP
- Textbooks/reference:
- Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science: the definitive textbook for TEM
- Rodenburg.org: online TEM reference
- Globalsino.com: another handy TEM reference
- Quantify Extracted Signal: info about quantifying EEL spectra
- Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis: comprehensive textbook about SEM/EDX