The ICDD database on CD-ROM is available for search and match studies while data is being collected. Funding has been obtained for a second powder diffractometer - call back later for more details. For more challenging studies we make extensive use of major facilities. A number of software packages are used in the analysis of the powder diffraction data, collected here and at major facilities, including the Rietveld Refinement package LHPM for both structural refinements and quantitative analysis. The majority of these operate on high performance PCs.
Programs are also available for the drawing of crystal and molecular structures.