PDF-2 2025
Phase Identification + Value
PDF-2 2025 is the most cost-effective license! PDF-2 features a FREE stand-alone option using ICDD’s integrated data-mining software, along with ICDD’s search-indexing software, SIeve. Designed for inorganic materials analyses, PDF-2 also includes common organic materials from ICDD to facilitate rapid materials identification.
You can trust your diffraction data to ICDD. All ICDD databases are reviewed, edited, and standardized prior to publication. You can be confident with PDF-2 to get you the right answer.
- PDF-2 2025 features 359,400+ entries for rapid and accurate phase identification.
- The PDF-2 database is licensed for five (5) years and offers the highest value in the global marketplace. This value is due to its low annual cost amortized over the lifetime of the license, combined with its large content of powder and single crystal powder data, and its high level of quality with embedded software for data mining and search-indexing.
- Quality and subfile filters combined with 75 different searches and 55 display fields enable you to target your results for more accurate identification. The database is not just a collection of numbers; it is a sophisticated data analysis tool.
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Using PDF-2 2025
Key Points
- Features 359,400+ entries
- 252,600+ entries have I/Ic values for quantitative analysis by Reference Intensity Ratio
- Integrated data mining software
- SIeve search-indexing software included
- Combines powder and single-crystal data
- Rapid data mining with our 55 display fields coupled with 75 searches
- Five (5) year license
Identify
- Number of entries – 359,400+
- New entries – 9,645
Quantify
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Reference Intensity Ratio (I/Ic) – 252,600+
Data-mining
- 75 types of Search Selections
- 55 types of Display Fields
Database Sources
Our collaborative partners include:
- ICDD Powders (00) – International Centre for Diffraction Data Newtown Square, PA, USA
- ICSD (01) – Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ) Karlsruhe, Germany – Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
- NIST (03) – National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
- MPDS (04) – Material Phases Data System, Vitznau, Switzerland – Linus Pauling File (LPF)
- ICDD Single Crystal Data (05) – International Centre for Diffraction Data Newtown Square, PA, USA
Subfiles
- Metal & Alloys – 119,063
- Mineral & Related Materials – 40,331
- Ceramics – 20,422
- Common Phases – 17,854
- Pigment & Dye – 1,259
- Pharmaceuticals – 9,102
- Polymers – 1,410
- Excipients – 3,169
All subfiles: Alkaloid , Amino Acid, Peptide & Complex, Battery Material, Bioactive, Carbohydrate, Cement & Hydration Product, Ceramic, Common Phase, Education, Explosive, Forensic, Hydrogen Storage Material, Inorganic, Intercalate, Ionic Conductor, Merck, Metal & Alloy, Micro & Mesoporous, Mineral Related, Modulated Structure, NBS, Nucleoside & Nucleotide, Organic, Pharmaceutical, Pigment & Dye, Polymer, Porphyrin, Corrin & Complex, Steroid, Superconducting Material, Terpene, Thermoelectric Material
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Subfile – select filters related to assigned subfiles/subclass.
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Environment – select filters related to the environment (especially temperature and pressure).
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Status – select filters based on the status of the pattern, which can be Primary, Alternate, or Deleted.
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Quality Mark (QM) – select filters related to the quality evaluation assigned to the data.
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Database – search the entire database or select the data entry source (i.e., ICDD (00) – ICDD’s experimental patterns).
Use your mouse to hover over the interactive elements in the red section of the search window and click to learn more.
Use your mouse to hover over the interactive elements in the red section of the PDF entry and click to learn more.
A Powder Diffraction FileTM (PDF) entry displays all of the scientific and bibliographic data available for a particular PDF entry and is organized into the following categories:
- 2D Structure
- Equipment factors
- Historic stick pattern and simulated pattern
- Tabular view of reported data: PDF, Experimental, Physical, Crystal, Optical, Structure, Classifications, Cross-references, References, Comments
*Note: The availability of each feature varies by PDF entry.
ICDD’s search indexing software, SIeve for PDF-2, is included for FREE. It is designed to search and identify unknown materials. SIeve is integrated into the ICDD database to allow the use of the extensive data mining interfaces, searches, and sorts available to improve the accuracy and precision of the identification process. For example, users can utilize the extensive permutable searches in each database, then define their own search subfile or use any of the “application or expert-defined” subfiles and subclasses to increase the accuracy of their phase identification. In many cases, this provides a unique capability to analyze the most difficult problems.
SIeve offers a variety of algorithms and options that allow users to optimize results for particular chemistries and both standard and non-standard diffraction systems. SIeve features automatic rotation of the eight strongest lines (Hanawalt) or the eight longest of the strongest lines (Fink) or the eight longest lines (Long8) to look for entries that exhibit the best Goodness of Match (GOM). In the last few years, new algorithms have been added to identify non-crystalline materials and complex multi-phase specimens. Most of the algorithms were developed and optimized for a particular type of analysis and the options provide the user with a wide breadth of analytical capability. SIeve can be complementary to most commercial software programs. This complementary nature demonstrates the strength of SIeve in the analysis of minor and trace phases where the full filtering capability of the PDF-2 database can be applied.
- FREE with PDF-2
- Match filter algorithms – better results, more accuracy
- Import d-I list, 1D diffraction pattern
- Display stick patterns for phases in graph
- Qualitative analysis
- Directly interfaces to all PDF databases for accurate filtering and analysis – full data mining
- Excels at the identification of low concentration phases
- Supports X-ray and synchrotron data
OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE SPOKEN
“We recently used PDF-2 for identifying alteration products formed in ambient vs. accelerated aging of copper acetate, in correlation with other spectroscopy methods. We were able to characterize a unique product that formed only at ambient conditions, and follow the transition from one form to another in both cases.”
– Cindy Ryan
READY TO PURCHASE PDF-2?
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor (recommended minimum), or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows® 7 SP1
- Windows® 8/8.1
- Windows® 10
- Windows® 11
- 4 GB of System Memory
- 5 GB of hard drive space
Note: It is necessary to have Administrator privileges or use the Administrator account and password for your local domain in order to install this product. You can obtain your domain by running the following command line in a Command Prompt window: ipconfig/all. Your local domain will appear next to the “Host” label.
Prior Release Requirements
2024 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor (recommended minimum), or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows® 7 SP1
- Windows® 8/8.1
- Windows® 10
- Windows® 11
- 4 GB of System Memory
- 5 GB of hard drive space
2023 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor (recommended minimum) or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows® 7 SP1
- Windows® 8
- Windows® 8.1
- Windows® 10
- 4 GB of System Memory
- 5 GB of hard drive space
2022 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows® 7 SP1
- Windows® 8
- Windows® 8.1
- Windows® 10
- NTFS File System required
- 4 GB of System Memory
- Installation requires 4 GB of hard-disk space
2021 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 10
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2020 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 10
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2019 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 10
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2018 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 10
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2016 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 10
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2015 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2014 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or better
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit)
- Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 4 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 4 GB
2013 Release
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor or equivalent
- Supported Microsoft® Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista® (32-bit) SP2
- Windows® 7 (32- & 64-bit) SP1
- Windows® 8 (32- & 64-bit) SP1
- NTFS file system required
- System memory recommended – 2 GB
- Hard-disk space required – 3.5 GB
The PDF-2 2025 database contains integrated data mining software, and as a value-added feature, a complimentary license for SIeve, a search-index plug-in.
Explore the capabilities of PDF-2 with our extensive help documentation, online tutorials, and videos. The Help files include a Table of Contents and fundamental information on how to use the database. The online tutorials are designed to demonstrate the features, applications, hints, and shortcuts for your PDF-2 product.
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