2014 年 56 巻 5 号 p. 307-312
The methods for ab initio crystal structure analysis from powder data have been highly-evolved for these 20−30 years. Recently many people can use the technique thanks to some software packages for the powder structure analysis such as EXPO, even if they are non-professional users. In such packages, there are new good tools which do not seem to be very popular. Here such the new, useful methods, which will make your analysis a success more often, are described.