Dear Prof. Thakur,

Although not a book, I believe that the paper "Rietveld refinement guidelines" from McCusker et al. is an excellent work on the general guidelines for Rietveld refinement analysis.

Best Regards,

Guilherme Soares

Article Reitveld Refinement Guidelines

Try: R A Young 'The Rietveld Method (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography)'  Oxford University Press (1993)

ISBN 10: 0198555776 ISBN 13: 9780198555773

Copies as cheap as $5 on Abebooks....

The following link is also useful: https://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/workshop/XRD/ppt/Prof%20Garg/AshishGarg_Rietveld.pdf

Dear Prof. Thakur,

Although not a book, I believe that the paper "Rietveld refinement guidelines" from McCusker et al. is an excellent work on the general guidelines for Rietveld refinement analysis.

Best Regards,

Guilherme Soares

Article Reitveld Refinement Guidelines

Thanks

 Thanks Dr. Guilherme Corrêa Soares for suggesting such a nice work.

Best Regards

Anup Thakur

Thanks Prof.  Alan F Rawle.

I suggest these books, because crystallographic data refinement is very tricky business. Since fitting procedure involves numerous variables, it is possible to fit almost anything perfectly without a problem. However, there is a big question: does these refined parameters of the structure make sense (both chemically and physically)?

If you do not make your basic understanding clear in the beginning, you will put yourself in a potential high risk of making a big mistakes in the future. These books will give you a quite detail information regarding diffraction, structural characterization and the Rietveld refinement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-pNnGIkkFk