Acknowledgments

The authors are in great gratitude to Dr. Jeong for the generous sharing of his literature collection of X-ray data analysis methods, also for his valuable inputs. Great appreciations go to Dr. Proffen for his lateral helps with early coding consulting, latex template for this manual, and the windows self-installer program. We would to thanks all the pre-beta version users for their patience dealing with the malicious bugs in the program, and their kindness to report them in details. An incomplete list of names includes Mr. Masadeh, Ms. Kim, Mr. Malliakas, Mr. Mtshatawani. Dr. Petkov and Dr. Bozin should also be thanked for the useful discussions.

Some open source utilities written by David Fanning, and Craig Markwardt have been used in this program without modifications. Several X-ray scattering tabulated data files are taken from the DABAX data base from ESRF website (http://ftp.esrf.fr/pub/scisoft/xop/DabaxFiles/), as guided by the GNU general public library license.

Financial support from the National Science Foundation through the grants DMR-0304391 and CHE-0211029 and from U.S. Department of Energy through grant DE-FG02-97ER45651, as well as the Center for Fundamental Materials Research (CFMR), are gratefully acknowledged.