: Software for Simulating and Fitting Grazing-incidence Small-angle Scattering

Overview

Journal J Appl Crystallogr

Date 2020 Feb 13

PMID 32047414

Citations 27

Authors

Gennady Pospelov

Walter Van Herck

Jan Burle

Juan M Carmona Loaiza

Celine Durniak

Jonathan M Fisher

Marina Ganeva

Dmitry Yurov

Joachim Wuttke

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Abstract

is a free and open-source multi-platform software framework for simulating and fitting X-ray and neutron reflectometry, off-specular scattering, and grazing-incidence small-angle scattering (GISAS). This paper concentrates on GISAS. Support for reflectometry and off-specular scattering has been added more recently, is still under intense development and will be described in a later publication. supports neutron polarization and magnetic scattering. Users can define sample and instrument models through Python scripting. A large subset of the functionality is also available through a graphical user interface. This paper describes the software in terms of the realized non-functional and functional requirements. The web site https://www.bornagainproject.org/ provides further documentation.

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