Acknowledgements & License

Acknowledgements

• Phase search and refinement are powered by dara (CederGroupHub) and the BGMN Rietveld engine. If you publish results obtained with this app, please cite both:

Fei, Y., McDermott, M. J., Rom, C. L., Wang, S. & Ceder, G. (2026). Dara: Automated multiple-hypothesis phase identification and refinement from powder X-ray diffraction. Chemistry of Materials, 38(3), 1364–1376. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02820

Bergmann, J., Friedel, P. & Kleeberg, R. (1998). BGMN — a new fundamental parameters based Rietveld program for laboratory X-ray sources, its use in quantitative analysis and structure investigations. CPD Newsletter, Commission of Powder Diffraction, International Union of Crystallography, No. 20, 5–8. - Reference structures come from the Crystallography Open Database (COD).

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Licensing

This project's own code is released under the MIT License.

BGMN is GPL-2.0-or-later

BGMN is a third-party component licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, according to published BGMN / Profex license information. A packaged app that bundles BGMN binaries must comply with BGMN's GPL terms before redistribution.

The full MIT license text is in LICENSE.