XTL-SIZE - A COMPUTER-PROGRAM FOR CRYSTAL-SIZE-DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION FROM X-RAY-DIFFRACTION LINE BROADENING

A computer program has been written for the determination of crystal-size distribution in a direction perpendicular to an (hkl) crystal plane, from a digitized XRD peak. The program has a fully automated operation mode and owing to the very restricted amount of input data this program is specially suited to users with a limited knowledge of crystal-size-determination methods. The program has been written in standard Fortran for an IBM-PC, running under MS-DOS 3.3 operating system; it requires about 150 Kbyte of free memory. The input control data have been made completely interactive, except for the experimental profile which is assumed to be in a file. The program has been debugged and tested extensively on a compatible IBM-AT personal computer and is available on request.