MAUD - Materials Analysis Using Diffraction (and more) | MAUD software can analysis diffraction and other spectroscopic data by fitting all your pattern/spectra using an unified model in a Rietveld like refinement. This enable you to get more info on your materials or chemical compounds including: phases content and crystal structures, microstructural characteristics like size and strains, crystallographic texture and planar defects. It works for amorphous or nanomaterials too. Can use X-ray, neutron or electron data, diffraction, reflectivity or fluorescence.

MAUD installation tips

There is not much to do to install the program after you have downloaded the proper Maud archive for your system.

Windows: unzip the Maud.zip archive you downloaded and put the Maud folder you have extracted in your preferred location to run the program. To run Maud, go inside the Maud folder and double click the Maud.bat file to start Maud.

Linux: in the terminal window: tar –xzf Maud.tar.gz . Then put/move the extracted folder in your preferred location. Start the Maud program using the Maud.sh inside that folder.

MacOS: double click the Maud_xxx64.dmg.gz to extract the dmg image. Double click the extracted .dmg to mount the image as a disk and drag and drop the Maud.app application inside that disk to your Applications folder or where you want it to be. Eject or unmount the image disk and start the program Maud.app from the folder where you have copied it.

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Licensing

MAUD is a free software running in a Java Virtual Machine (included). As a standalone software it can be used as it is.
You are permitted to use it for the purposes it was build (scientific analyses of materials and compounds) without restrictions and the author is not responsible for different or improper use of it. As the source code is available in the github page, you are encouraged to extend it and contribute to its development. You are not permitted to re-distribute or sell the MAUD software. You can share these web pages through links or other means.