You can't just use the Scherrer equation for the crystallite size calculation with these data. You have to substact the instrumental line broadening using a diffractogram from a well crystalline sample of Si or BaF2 for example.

Another point is that Scherrer not always gives you a real crystallite size value, this because the FWHM is affected not only by the particle size as by the structural strain. It must be pointed out also that the shape constant (k = 0.89 ~0.9) is used for spherical particles, so that you need to be sure that your crystallits are spherical.

The equation to calculate the particle size is D=(0.9 Lambda)/(Beta*Cos Teta) that is known as Scherrer’s equation. where, lambda --- wavelength of x-rays

beta-FWHM of diffraction peak and theta--- angle corresponding to the peak.

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use the Scherrer equation: (d = (K x lambda)/(fwhm x cos theta)

lambda is the X-ray wavelength in angstroms

K is a constant, usually set at 0.9.

FWHM is the full width of the Bragg peak at half maximum, in radians

theta is the Bragg peak, in radians. Just remember this isn't 2 x theta, but *theta*

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hello you must using theusing the Scherrer’s formula:

You can't just use the Scherrer equation for the crystallite size calculation with these data. You have to substact the instrumental line broadening using a diffractogram from a well crystalline sample of Si or BaF2 for example.

Another point is that Scherrer not always gives you a real crystallite size value, this because the FWHM is affected not only by the particle size as by the structural strain. It must be pointed out also that the shape constant (k = 0.89 ~0.9) is used for spherical particles, so that you need to be sure that your crystallits are spherical.

@Ehsan Sadeghi Yes, I am using Scherrer’s formula:

@Mathias Strauss, Its confirmed that crystals are spherical

Please use Sh error's formula to do calculations.

The Scherrer Equation is a quick method to obtain a particle size but as Mathias noted Reitveld refinement will give you the most accurate assessment since all of the experimental variables including the instrument effects are considered.

Even with refinement it is always worthwhile to characterize your sample with SEM and TEM to get a broader sense of the structure. For example, polycrystalline structures will have crystalline sizes that are smaller by sometimes several factors than the particles themselves.

Well to calculate the particle size using scherrer formula is a little tricky, since the peak broadening can be due to crystallite size (which gives a lorentzian contribution) or strain (Gaussian contribution). It will only be straight forward if the contribution to the broadening is due to one of the two factors, otherwise you should use Thomson-Cox-Hastings pseudo-Voigt function which is the sum of Lorentzian and Gaussian to perform your calculations.

Crystallite size can be calculated using the Scherror's formula that one can get very easily from ant text book.

All - please don't keep giving the same answers over and over. Mathias Strauss has already answered the question - i.e., these data cannot be used to determine size using the Scherrer formula (or by Rietveld refinement for that matter). This is not only because the peak broadening is a convolution of size and microstrain, but because the present data does not consider the instrumental broadening. So any size estimate is almost certainly wrong.

Of course some of the answers here do provide very useful advice for consideration once the instrumental broadening is known.

Hasna:

1) lambda is the wavelength of the radiation used to collect the data. For example 1.54Å for Cu K-alpha or 1.79Å for Co K-alpha. So it is independent of the sample chemistry.

2a) the answer might be: "both" - the so-called Scherrer constant is a function of the crystallite geometry so 0.94 and 0.89 are both potentially "correct" values of this constant. You can look this up in a variety of references.

2b) the useful answer might also be: "it probably doesn't matter" - because except in unusual circumstances the error in the derived crystallite size is likely much larger than the ~4% difference between the two constants.

For the X-ray diffraction analysis you need first correct for the instrumental line broadening and background line (background is represent amorphous content). Then you have diffraction intensity for crystal also you need to fit your data into a symmetrical Gaussian distribution as example. The crystallite dimensions is two one is called stack diameter (La) and other is stack height, (Lc) can be calculated from the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and Bragg’s peaks using Bragg’s and Deby-Sherrier equations. But you need to know which peak represent the stack high and stack diameter. You can use Trace software program from Diffraction Technology PTG LTD, Australia. This program refines the intensity of each peak (as a separate variable), smoothes the peak shape, as well as subtracting the background line and eliminating the K2-peak from the diffraction intensity

Mr. Asim

You cannot calculate crystal size using this data. After you do correction of the above mentioned. To calculate stack high you need to know reflection peaks at (002), (004) (006) if it possible (001) and (003) and the Stack diameter reflection peaks at (111), (110) (100) (121) (220) and so on. Then directly use Sherrie equation: for stack high K factor =0.9 and for stack diameter K factor=1.84.

The best option is SAXS data analysis for particle size from Guinier region of the Intensity pattern and XRD CAN NEVER A SOLUTION FOR NANO PARTICLE SIZE ESTIMATION.

Use schemer equation and also inspect it by taking fesem. It is essential enough to validate the grain crystal size.

yes Harrindra it will be ok in one way but still better if you can go for TEM & SAXS.

Harindra,

It is ok but better to go for SAXS study.

According Professor Davos Balzar (towards the end of the XX century) there are 3 or more methods to determine size-strain analyzing the peak broadening of a material. There 3 more known: Scherrer equation, simplified integral breadth methods (Williamson-Hall, Langford,..) and Fourier methods. Others: double Voigt methods, Kojdecki algoritm, Leoni-Scardi algoritm,...). Overlapping reflections is a problem. Should get reflections, if possible, in the pattern diffraction with high intensity (>10000-20000 cps) obtained with speed of small step scan.

If you have X-ray diffraction data (* extension in raw), Just downloade

WinFit X-ray diffraction program and then use it to calculate crystal size

Ravim

Yes there is strain effect in SAXS too but needs quite attention towards the SAXS data.

Qualitative information about average crystallite (attention with the answer of Mathias Strauss) can be obtained using Scherrer's equation:

D = 0.89 lambda / beta cos theta

where D = the crystallite size (usually in nm), lambda = the wavelength of X-ray diffraction (in nm), beta = the full width at half-maximum, and theta = the Bragg diffraction angle.

José! "beta = the full width at half-maximum".

For a Gaussian Bragg profile, the integral breadth, β, is related to the FWHM peak width, H, by β = 0.5 H (π / log e 2)^1/2. Please note that in modern diffractometers with advanced incident beam conditioners, the Bragg profile is seldom Gaussian. Besides, the sample Nano structure convolutes to change the profile shape. In addition, one needs to know the "back-ground" signal precisely prior and post the Bragg profile "shoulders".

The Sherrer formula is a simple relationship that needs tweaking based on other experimental parameters. The availability of the raw diffractogram to review would eliminate a huge handicap for further analyses and suggestions.

Thanks Ravi:

Yes, use integral breadth (= >beta = the full width at half-maximum => FWHM) is sometimes better in the Scherrer formula.

Regards

Dillip! Please post some references for SAXS strain analysis.

Ravi,

OK I am doing very soon.

The FWHM and Bragg Peak position are sufficient for use of the Scherrer formula. But the values you get need to be understood in terms of some "known standard" for identical experimental conditions. That is the most precise method for using XRD successfully!

Hi Ravi Ananth:

A relatively recent publication explains the use of the Scherrer equation that I have tried to indicate which you have properly corrected.

Regards.

Thanks José! Appreciate the PDF version as I have very little access to literature other than Google.

In this case the particles appear to be homogeneously near spherical. It is also important to note that not only is the "average" particle size info present in the XRD signal but so is the size distribution. However, with the conventional diffractometery this information is smudged due to either the sample rotation or the large sample area integration (focusing geometry) inherent to the conventional "spatially blind" method. It is really a miracle that through mathematical machination we are able to extract meaningful information from this super convoluted smudge of a XRD signal. The Scherrer formula is an effective empirical approach validated over decades but does require appropriate assumptions in Nano structure.

Hi Ravi, more information:

Depending on the type of chemical synthesis crystallite morphology can change (spherical, prismatic, ...). These crystallographic programs based on mathematical algorithms Kojdeck and Leonii it may show and visualized by electron microscopy techniques. An example, the attached article.

Regards.

Using XRD data, You can calculate particle size with the help of Scherrer formula and using the value of FWHM, peak position and wavelength of x-ray used.

How to find the percentage of crystallinity of semi-crystalline materials ?

Use sherrer equation for calculating crystallinity of semicrystalline materials

Avnesha,

Sherrer formula will not give crystallinity rather give crystallite size.

The Sherrer equation? Really? It's the 21st century folks, hop on board.

Agree with the problem of using the Scherrer equation to determine the crystallite size in the direction perpendicular to a given plane; But sometimes, apart from TEM is the only qualitative information can be obtained from a nanocrystalline material. We are in the XXI century, but the work of crystallographers as Scherrer we can not forget.

SAXS, PDF, Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI), Phase contrast tomography, ....

WHEN HOLOGRAPHY MEETS COHERENT DIFFRACTION IMAGING

Tatiana Latychevskaia,* Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, and Hans-Werner Fink

Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Switzerland

*[email protected]

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.1320.pdf

Phase Contrast X-ray Imaging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-contrast_X-ray_imaging

Despite all its abuse, the Scherrer approach is still an excellent method to estimate the general size using "known standards". In order to make absolute measurements, calibration charts would be required that need to be corroborated with AFM, TEM or SEM. Not trivial. However, the "quick and dirty" XRD approach is still quite elegant. Keeping in mind that in the early 1900's Scherrer did not have the luxury of "Polaroid film" or real time imaging systems.

The main problem with the Scherrer method is that it assumes there are only 3 sources of broadening: 1)Instrumental broadening 2)strain broadening 3)size broadening. In truth, depending on your material, there can be many other factors that effect peak shape and width (distribution in stoichiometry, disorder caused by point defects, line defects, planar defects(for example stacking faults)). Also the way in which broadening due to strain is calculated works only for very low strain. If there is even moderate plastic strain in your material (which is usually the case in more metallic systems) the peak shape becomes very difficult to model since it is a function of the dislocation structure (not simply the density) within each grain (which will be orientation dependent, and which can form very structured wide dislocation walls that are ordered crystallographically) and the intra-granular orientation distribution function (ODF) which is only just recently able to measured in 3D with sufficient resolution in reciprocal and real space to aid in modeling. Also there is a very narrow range of grain sizes in which there is any measurable effect. In an ideal case in which your material has a low dislocation density (like a ceramic) and mobility, no variation in stoichiometry, no defect structures, has only elastic strain and no plastic strain, and has a uniform and equiaxed grain size under 100nm, then it is possible to get reasonable results using the Scherrer method.

Here is a very cool method:

http://www.esrf.eu/news/spotlight/spotlight122

This is very cool as well. Sub-nanometer resolution in 3D.

http://aps.anl.gov/Users/Meeting/2007/Workshops/talks/APS07.Harder.pdf

Thanks Lawrence! Very very cool links!

S. Abd.El.Aleem - I don't understand why you are copying existing answers from others and reposting them. What is the value in doing this please?

You have to use the modified scherrer equation for calculating the crystal size from XRD data. The research paper about this equation is attached with my answer. This paper will help you to find the crystal size.

www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=23195

Sujoy - I have read your paper and I confess that I don't fully understand it. It appears to me that you have failed to subtract the instrumental broadening (using a powder standard) from the measured peak breadth. Am I wrong?

Edward - I don't understand that what you are trying to say. If you have any xrd data,piease give it to me,then I will calculate the crystal size using modified scherrer equation.

Here is the point Sujoy, a "fellow" from IIT Kgp. (what dept.?)! The Scherrer equation "modified" or not is used erroniously in the paper that you have cited.

Larry made this point earlier, "In truth, depending on your material, there can be many other factors that affect peak shape and width (distribution in stoichiometry, disorder caused by point defects, line defects, planar defects(for example stacking faults))."

The Scherrer approach neglects the change in FWHM from anything other than "size". The "particle" shape must also be assumed. As Edward Andrew, has pointed out, the instrumental broadening is certainly nowhere to be found in this publication. Need some explanation, don't you think? The paper you have presented (shared) must have been reviewed and approved by the Mullocracy or something. It is fundamentally flawed like the hypothesis of "Genesis" and a single "Adam & Eve". Now I see the point made by folks like Matteo Leoni and others about researchers publishing "trash" and other gullible ones swallowing the pabulum. I'm the only one among all of you fellows that can claim to be in the "trash" business (NJ Medical Waste) :-)

Have you critically reviewed this article yet? Here is another glaring & blatant error, "Scherrer Equation was developed in 1918, to calculate the nano crystallite size by XRD radiation of wavelength λ (nm) from measuring full width at half maximum of peaks (β) in radian located at any 2θ in the pattern." The Scherrer equation uses the integral half width (β) not the FWHM (H) of the experimental Bragg profile. I see no attempt to detect the Bragg profile shape in this paper. "XRD radiation", what's that? Who edited this "junk"?

"A Philips XRD instrument with Cukα radiation using 40 KV and 30 mA, step size of 0.05° (2θ) and scan rate of 1°/min were employed." No mention of the beam conditioning apparatus used. Was the Rachinger correction applied for K Alpha 1 & 2 presence? You know that would affect the measured Bragg FWHM dramatically. Shoddy work!

BTW for a Gaussian Bragg peak shape the, integral breadth, β, is related to the FWHM peak width, H, by β = 0.5 H (π / log e 2)^1/2. You can choose to neglect or ignore this and pontificate all day long in futility :-)

I had no clue about this until recently myself! Guilty! :-(

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Larry! What I'm finding with GaAs (004) is that the "stacking faults" do not alter the FWHM. Most of the distortion to the Bragg profile due to stacking faults occurs below the FWHM. It creates asymmetry in the observed profile below the FWHM. This does need to be corroborated by other tools like TEM, SEM, AFM etc.

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Sujoy - I am trying to say that the paper has serious/fatal flaws. Sorry if I was not clear.

Thank you for your kind offer though.

Ravi - just to be clear, and I think you are aware of this, Sujoy was not an author of the "modified Scherrer method" paper that was brought to our attention, and has no responsibility for its flaws.

Sujoy - There is probably a very good reason why this paper has been published in the little-known "World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering", rather than in Acta Cryst, or J Appl Cryst., where you might have expected to find it.

I note that the journal publisher has been flagged on this site: in a list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers". You make judge for yourself what that means.

Edward Andrew! Yes, I'm well aware that Sujoy wasn’t an author but just an innocent proponent. I did include "shared" with "presented" in the text from earlier. However, one of the responsibilities of each of us is thorough review before using anyone else’s publication. Especially, since Sujoy happens to be from my alma mater, I’d hold him to a higher standard. I hope my tone wasn’t accusatory. I was only trying to help Sujoy get even better :-)

In my opinion, the root cause of such errors is the "spatial blindness" of the conventional XRD powder methods and the desire (convenience) to use "formulae" blindly. Scherrer himself must have used tremendous intuition and copious experimental observations with 2D film to come up with this elegant empirical approach that we in modern times are yet unable to apply properly with all our fancy quantitative tools in XRD.

BTW thanks for being the "hawk eye" in the discussion and keeping us all in line! It is an invaluable contribution. I'd have no idea about the credibility of such publications without your scrutiny and diligence. As I've already admitted regarding the Scherrer approach, "I had no clue about this until recently myself! Guilty!". Thanks to you fellows on RG.

Now, let us see if we can exclude "wanton and unabashed plagiarism", (regurgitation) without credit to original authors by some of us illustrious RG members, with the same zeal. I wonder about the contents of such RG member’s publications who can’t even come up with their own words. Glad that Sujoy is not guilty of this at least :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Scherrer

http://www.psi.ch/

Despite the 'fatal flaws" with this publication, the XRD data (line profiles) clearly are sufficient to make relative analyses between the various conditions and samples. The challenge is with quantification and extraction of absolute "size". I must presume "grinding", commonly employed in PXRD to create "homogeneity", was not used in this case. Can't tell from the paper? "Severe deformation" of powder constituents is not the recommended method to preserve the in situ Nano structure of samples. Of course, the effect of any potential preferred oriention would have to be neglected as well, unless one uses film to detect it in 2D.

Too bad the authors (including the editors & referees) of the referenced paper aren't available to defend their position.

How does one "be sure that your crystallits are spherical"?

Ravi,

It is pretty clear in the referenced paper that the calculations of crystallite size are grossly wrong. The final pattern with sharp peaks cannot possibly be from a 35nm powder sample, as they have calculated.

It is good they are not trying to defend the paper. The only defense is simple: "we made an invalid assumption, and the conclusions are bunk". What is really too bad is that the referees and editor are not available to defend their acceptance of this shoddy work.

Andrew

Please don't copy and paste statements by others if you have nothing else to add to the conversation. It is both unethical as well as annoying.

out of different diffracted peaks, which peak we have to select for particle size calculation using Sherrer formula.

The calculation using Scherrer formula assumes a certain shape factor and generally isotropic. In real life crystals neither of those assumptions are true but far from it. 

"usually an average of all peaks" will only smudge the data and give you an average "isotropic" reciprocal space parameter and hence a "smudged" interpretation. The use of "(h00), (0k0) and (00l) peaks" will give a better estimate of the an-isotropic character of the real life sample.

The broadening of X-ray diffractions reflections can be investigated using different methods: (1) the Scherrer method, (2) the Warren-Averbach approach, (3) the Langford method, (4) several whole pattern analysis approaches (Kojdecki method, Leoni method,...), (5) and others.

The parameter B ( full width at half maximum) should be converted to radians instead of degrees , so the B must be multiplied by 3.14 and divided by 180

Another point is that , cos Theta  is cos ( angle /2) because the reading is 2 theta

good luck 

you can use the equation of Debye-Scherrer methods Dv = Kλ/βcosθ

Where Dv, presents average nanoparticle size; K, depicts

Scherrer constant (i.e. 0.9); λ, means radiation wavelength;

β, implies full width at half maximum; and θ, infers diffraction

pattern angle.

How to measure the yield percentage of CNTs  produced from alcohols as carbon source with using catalyst Fe/MgO and without using catalyst by CVD method?

There are several mathematical models to study the microstructural parameters of crystalline materials (Scherrer, Williamson-Hall, Langford, Leoni, Kojdecki and others).

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The parameter B ( full width at half maximum) should be converted to radians instead of degrees , so the B must be multiplied by 3.14 and divided by 180

Another point is that , cos Theta  is cos ( angle /2) because the reading is 2 theta

good luck 

Roughly you can use Deby-Sherrier equation  but you need to know the stack length  Lc due to (002), (004) Bragg plane and stack diameter La due to (110), (220), (111), (131) (131) Bragg plane

 Also you can use  the X-ray analysis Traces program from Diffraction Technology PTG LTD, Australia to assess the accuracy of the values.

  I agree with prof Mathias Strauss. Then diffraction intensity profiles first correct to background line intensity and instrumental broadening and then fitted into a symmetrical Gaussian distribution. The crystallite parameters of your sample such as d002 spacing stack diameter (La) and stack height, (Lc) can be calculated from the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the  diffraction peaks using Bragg’s equation and Deby-Sherrier equation 

Dear Dr. Asim Umer

The attached Power point Presentation may help you

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Dear Dr. Asim Umer 

I'm so sorry, for this.

The PPT is attached below and has been sent by e-mail.

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Dear Dr. Asim Umer

You can use famous Deby-Sherrier formula to calculate crystallite/crystal size.

D=0.9(Lambda)/(Beta*COS(theta) in which beta is Full width of half maximum of large or average  peak(Broadening), but it should be in radians. theta is Braggs angle and lambda is wavelength. You should it by taking High resolution transmission electron microscopy images and SAED selected area electron diffraction pattern.

Good luck

There are several methods based on crystallographic XRD used to determine the crystallite size in a polycrystalline material: Scherrer, Kojdecki, ...

Dear Dr. Asim Umer 

Here, there are two attached papers may help you in your study.

I hope for you all success and good luck

Thanks

Hi

Scherrer’s equation:

Particle Size = (0.9 x λ)/ (d cosθ)

λ = 1.54060 Å (in the case of CuKa1) so, 0.9 x λ = 1.38654

Θ = 2θ/2 (in the example = 20/2)

d = the full width at half maximum intensity of the peak (in Rad) – you can calculate it using Origin software.

To convert from angle to rad

Rad = (22 x angle) / (7 x 180) = angle x 0.01746

Example: if d = 0.5 angle (θ)

= (22 x 0.5)/ (7x 180) = 0.00873 rad

I have calculated these for you

1. 6.0974, 0.3149, 14.49535, crystallise size is 25.3 nm

2. 40.9764, 0.576, 2.20077, crystallise size is 14.7 nm

Have a very good day and best of luck

Hi Osman,

I want to know  how to calculate Crystal Size, using Origin Pro 8.5 software??

Thank u very much sir....

this site will helping you

http://mahendrakoppolu.blogspot.com.eg/2013/07/online-crystallite-size-calculator.html

Using Scherrer equation one can calculate crystallite size from XRD data

All - please be VERY careful when applying the Scherrer equation for crystallite size estimation. You MUST correct for instrumental broadening, otherwise you will calculate a much smaller size than is real. This is well documented in, for example Klug & Alexander. As a reviewer I have seen this elementary mistake many times in submitted manuscripts. At a minimum, if your microscopy indicates tens of microns and Scherrer says tens of nanometers, then you need to look critically at your analyses, and understand why these differ.

You must also consider whether or not microstrain broadening is possible - if so, you might need to try a Williamson-Hall approach. But as others have pointed out, this is now the 21st century, and there are more sophisticated methods using whole pattern fitting that you really ought to look at. Do a search on ResearchGate and you will quickly find detailed discussion from Matteo Leoni that will explain this better.

I think this link can help

http://www.instanano.com/characterization/theoretical/xrd-size-calculation/

You can calculate FWHM using Origin software here: http://bit.ly/2qvW3ZZ

and then use Scherrer’s equation: calculate Crystal Size

Hello any body explain me β sample and β ref are the FWHM of the reference and sample peaks, respectively. please i need to understand the difference. 

Hello the document attached may be useful for you.

1) In Scherrer equation Lambda means the wavelenght of the radiation used to obtain the difraction pattern.

2) K The constant of proportionality or the shape constant of the material depends on the how the width is determined, the shape of the crystal, and the size distribution.

3) It is important to have in consideration that the broadering can be due to the size particle as well as microstrain and instrumental profile.

Furthere information in the document related to K consant:

–the most common values for K are:

•0.94 for FWHM of spherical crystals with cubic symmetry

•0.89 for integral breadth of spherical crystals w/ cubic symmetry

•1, because 0.94 and 0.89 both round up to 1

–K actually varies from 0.62 to 2.08

use the Scherror's formula

use the Scherror's formula

The lattice parameter “a” of the obtained phases was calculated for the principle (hkl) plane according to the following equation :

1/d^2=(h^2+k^2+l^2)/a^2

The crystallite size (D) was determined from the broadening (FWHM) via the Scherrer equation as the following:

D=0.9 λ/ß Cosθ

The lattice strain (ε) was calculated for the similar diffraction lines from the following equation:

ε=ß/4 tanθ

Where λ=1.54059, θ is the angle (radians) and ß is the full width at half maximum (FWHM)

Dear Admin, My question is that if i have a alloy that composed up of two or three materials than which peak i select to calculate the crystal size for example if i have Copper alloy in which iorn as well as silver also present than for (1) which element peak we choose and (2) which specific peak we choose for crystal size calculation because there are many peaks for single element.

Use Scherrer's equation

Scherrer’s equation: Particle Size Dxrd = (0.9 x λ)/ (d cosθ)

λ = 1.54060 Å (in the case of CuKalpha) ==> 0.9 x λ = 1.38654

note that Θ = 2θ/2

d = the full width at half maximum intensity of the peak (in Rad).

To convert from angle to rad; Rad = (22 x angle) / (7 x 180) = angle x 0.01746

I hope this article will help you.

@ Seyed, Abderrahmane ,Nishant, Yassine & Tapash, why do you continue post such answers in a thread, where this overly simplistic and out-dated approach is being disqualified by knowledgeable people for good reasons? I cannot understand this.