NEWCEL : Apply unit-cell change

Contact Author: H D Flack, Laboratoire de Cristallographie, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland

NEWCEL transforms all data in a bdf for a change of unit cell.

Description

NEWCEL undertakes the transformation of data in a bdf due to a change in the base vectors of the unit cell. The transformation is specified as \(\alpha '\) = T \(\alpha \) where \(\alpha \) is a column vector of the unit cell vectors a, b, c and the transformation matrix T is given on the transf line by rows. The following quantities in the bdf are transformed:

  • the cell dimensions and cell volume;

  • the symmetry operators and lattice type (centring);

  • the number of atoms of each type per cell;

  • the Miller indices h, k, l of the crystal faces and of the reference reflections;

  • the minimum and maximum Miller indices h, k, l of the measured reflections;

  • the fractional coordinates and anisotropic displacement parameters of the atoms;

  • the Miller indices h, k, l ;

  • the crystal-based azimuthal angles, the multiplicity and the symmetry reinforcement parameter \(\epsilon \) of the intensity reflections;

  • the Miller indices h, k, l of the reflection used to refine the cell dimensions.

The programme uses the automatic streaming technique to run STARTX and ADDATM to ensure that the information in the bdf is made consistent. Also if h, k, l, \(\theta \) data are available on the bdf, LATCON is automatically run to refine the transformed cell dimensions.

File Assignments

  • Reads data from the input archive bdf.

  • Writes data to the output archive bdf.