New Capabilities for 2024

To enhance the value of the PDF^® Databases, ICDD has incorporated many new developments for the 2024 product release. Every year, we listen to our customers to create a better product for you. Below are just some of the many value-added developments designed to make the ICDD products more functional and powerful for 2024.

New Formula Fields

Ideal Formula: Describes the general chemistry of the compound, especially in cases of minerals and solid solutions. Minor substituents or variations may be ignored in this representation.

Analytical Formula: Based on experimental elemental analysis, such as XRF and microprobe analysis. This formula is descriptive and represents a composition derived based on experimental measurements.

Optimized Element Searches

PDF Card Features

New arrow buttons allow the user to quickly traverse through the search results table
- Mouse wheel option

Graphing Features

Automatic vertical zooming
Gradient color fill option
Raw data (PD3 patterns) in search results*
Diffraction pattern preview when dragging and dropping*

*Only available in PDF-4 and PDF-5+ databases

2D Structure Templates*

Used for 2D structure and substructure searches
200 templates available
Use as starting structure or complete structure
Search by template name

*Only available in PDF-5+ databases

3D Structure Features

Export 3D structure animation to a GIF file*

*Only available in PDF-4 and PDF-5+ databases

SAED Simulation Features

Added support for importing Gatan *.dm3 files*

*Only available in PDF-4 and PDF-5+ databases

SIeve/SIeve+ Features

Support for new file formats
- Rigkau *.asc
- Rigkau *.rasx
Hide irrelevant matches
Supports NIST SRM 660c as an internal standard
Single peak search
- Select peak using the mouse
- Search strong or long lines
- User-defined error window
- Useful for trace phase analysis