CrystalSleuth

CrystalSleuth is a software application specialized in analyzing and manipulating both Raman and powder diffraction data sets. It can be deployed on all Windows versions out there.

You are welcomed by a well-structured suite of features. You may also appeal to tooltips if you cannot decode the function of the dedicated parameters. Tooltips are displayed each time you hover your mouse cursor over a specific feature. An online help manual is also available in case you need extra assistance with the configuration settings.

CrystalSleuth offers you the possibility to automatically remove background noise and cosmic ray events from patterns, as well as allow the comparison of multiple spectra. The program is able to automatically locate and store peak positions.

What’s more, you can import data from plain text files that store a single data pair (x, y) per line, manually remove cosmic ray events, zoom in or out of the graph, and adjust the noise level and slope.

Other notable configuration options worth being mentioned enable you to redefine the unit cell from powder diffraction patterns, search for or match a Raman pattern by referencing peak positions against an online database, zoom in or out, print the information, undo or redo your actions, trim data, reverse X-axis, scroll to the left or right side of the workspace, as well as make use of hotkeys for faster actions.

Tests have shown that CrystalSleuth carries out a task pretty quickly. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

To sum things up, CrystalSleuth proves to be a reliable application that comes bundled with a handy set of tools for analyzing X-ray diffraction spectra and Raman spectra, and is suitable especially for scientists or students.