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McMaille – Sous le Capot (Under the Bonnet)

McMaille – Sous le Capot (Under the Bonnet). Le Bail Université du Maine Laboratoire des Oxydes et Fluorures CNRS – UMR 6010 FRANCE alb@cristal.org http://cristal.org/. Content Overview of functionality of the McMaille (pronounce Mac My) (what does it do?)

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McMaille – Sous le Capot (Under the Bonnet)

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  1. McMaille – Sous le Capot(Under the Bonnet) • Le BailUniversité du MaineLaboratoire des Oxydes et FluoruresCNRS – UMR 6010FRANCEalb@cristal.orghttp://cristal.org/

  2. Content Overview of functionality of the McMaille (pronounce Mac My)(what does it do?) Features that differentiate the program (why/when should I use it?) Summary of implementation (language, platform, gui/cmd line - how/where can I use/get it?) Description of 2-3 favorite algorithm/implementation tricks (what is under the bonnet?)

  3. No way to escape theindexing bottleneckin the SDPD maze (figure extracted from the IUCr monograph 13) SDPD =Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry

  4. What does it do ? Indexing powder diffraction patterns. Using not only peak positions, also intensities. Applying the Monte Carlo method in order to generate randomly cell parameters tested against an idealized powder profile.

  5. The columnar peak shapes used by McMaille v3 The width in the automated mode is calculated as :0.3 x  / 1.54056it depends on the user in manual mode

  6. « Simplicity » of the Monte Carlo algorithm in McMaille

  7. Features that differentiate the program (why/when should I use it?) Good for providing near-complete lists of « solutions » ordered byR factor (FoM)Cell volumeMost frequently found cellsLargest number of peak indexed But… slow… Up to 1-15 mn in « black box mode ».Up to 1-15 hours in manual mode.(depending if monoclinic and triclinic are examined) To be used if TREOR, DICVOL (etc) fail, or if you have time or if you love it…

  8. Summary of implementation Language : old good FORTRAN 77Compilers : Compaq Visual Fortran, Intel Visual Fortran, G77 Platforms : Windows (XP, etc), Linuxwill benefit of dual-core and future multi-core processors(once the code will be paralellized : project by using the Intel Visual Fortran compiler) Gui/CMD line : CMD line

  9. Typical « DOS box » with CMD line : You just give the filenameand can stop by typingK (capital letter),saving all results.

  10. Where can I get it ? Program download (GNU Public Licence) : http://www.cristal.org/McMaille/ Everything is there(executable, Fortran code, manual, examples)

  11. How can I use it ? The first recommended approach with McMaille is to use the quite simple automated « black box » mode. Peak positions and intensities can be extracted by using the WinPlotr program which is able to build the McMaille entry data file directly for the automated mode.

  12. If the peak positions are extracted by WinPLOTR, an entry file is directly prepared for McMaille for an automated run.

  13. Y2O3! Wavelength, zeropoint and NGRID (NGRID=3: black box mode)1.540560 0.000 3! List of 2theta positions, intensity (min.=20) 20.50481 1411.71155 29.15784 11198.95700 33.79123 2632.66553 35.91046 531.02966 37.92135 135.21042 39.84880 606.23480 41.70092 118.49068 43.48877 881.15845 46.88918 271.40564 48.52835 4213.47021 50.12016 230.08562 51.68559 66.62399 53.20726 506.43854 54.69715 117.27492 56.16987 404.76215 57.61465 2603.39868 59.03540 563.80334 60.43375 471.21359 61.81146 194.23712 Etc Typical file created by WinPLOTRforMcMaille

  14. Description of 2-3 favorite algorithm/implementation tricks (what is under the bonnet?) Simplicity of use in black box mode (contains an internal expert system presenting ordered lists of possibilities according to several criteria) Is a kind of Swiss knife for indexing : You may look deeply at selected possibilities by using the alternative grid search mode (if ambiguity on one parameter, etc). You can try multi-pattern indexing.

  15. Final plot produced by McMaille, displayed by WinPLOTR : with Gaussian peak shapes and width / 2. Other software compatible with McMaille outputs : CHEKCELL, CRYSFIRE

  16. Compatibility with Chekcell

  17. Relative insensitivity to impurity The user decides by two control parameters in manual mode: N’ : number of unindexed lines (= 3 in automated mode). R2 : consider only proposals with R < R2. Fixing it at 15% means that cell proposals explaining at least 85% of the peaks total intensity will be listed. An impurity should not concern more than 15% of the total intensity, right ? But the number of (small) peaks belonging to the impurity can be high…

  18. Indexing a 2-phases powder pattern with McMaille

  19. Preliminary conclusions about two-phases indexing with McMaille Provided at least 30 lines are examined with 13-17 lines belonging to each phases, and 40-60% of the total intensity distributed to each phase, then : McMaille appears to be able to produce solutions in reasonable times (<1 hour) for combinations of two phases either cubic or hexagonal or tetragonal or orthorhombic. Monoclinic and triclinic not examined (too long).

  20. Example of 2-phases indexing (20 minutes) :One mixture of a tetragonal with an orthorhombic phaseMcMaille combines the cell proposals by couples and detects the best combinations indexing the largest number of peaks :

  21. Last publication from Robin Shirley et al. : « Renewed interest in powder diffraction data indexing », J. Bergmann, A. Le Bail, R. Shirley and V. Zlokazov, Z. Kristallogr. 219 (2004) 783-790. From the indexing benchmarks :Do not limit yourself to only one indexing software…

  22. Conclusions about McMaille • - Promising (?) method (please verify)… • Already quite efficient if you have time and a fast computer. • Needs some skills in manual mode, but nothing to do in « black box »  mode (except finding the zeropoint). • Improve it if you have some ideas (GNU Public Licence). • Completely free access. • Use cautiously the 2-phases mode…

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