CSM

Powder pattern identification using search-match

CSM (Crystallographica-Search Match) is a search-match program for use with the International Centre for Diffraction Data‘s PDF databases.

  • Powerful search algorithm for multi-phase identification
  • Lightning-fast search using raw data, peak data or a combination of the two
  • Fully integrated Boolean PDF card retrieval and display
  • User database, with interface to Crystallographica
  • Fully integrated peak search and background subtraction tools
  • Powder pattern simulation, including multi-phase mixtures
  • Reads most common file formats – if not just ask!
  • Writes reports directly to Microsoft Word

Find out more about CSM and try it with your own data using the free 90-day trial version available in the downloads section. Existing users may also update their installations to the latest release here.

CSM will run under any 32-bit version of Windows.  The program is fully compatible with both the old format PDF-2 and the new RDB format databases PDF-2 Release 2005 onwards, PDF-4 and PDF-4+.