Thank you very much for your high quality content and dedication. Really hope your channel will be seen by many more people. I got solo-access to a xrd about a year ago and since then I'm more or less teaching myself with literature and webinars (to be honest, the whole reciprocal space, symmetry and rietveld - thematics are very challenging, but "simple" measurements and phase qualification is getting better). My high-score software version is quite old (2.2) and the refinement controls aren't like in your tutorials, I guess the database is a bit outdated, too. Your content is incredibly helpful and your slightly longer introduction-video got me hooked. I'm very interested and looking forward to your next video - series, already ordered the book you recommended. Wish you and Benjamin all the best.
@WWC94 Wow, that message means a lot! I really never thought when I started this channel that it would have much reach outside of the users of my own lab, but knowing that it helps others has really encouraged me to keep it up and expand, even when the thought of expanding is a bit...intimidating. My intention was to produce only training videos on how to use our instruments. However, making videos focused more on the science behind X-ray diffraction has actually helped me as well. You don't REALLY know a topic until you try to teach it. As you said, stuff like reciprocal space, the details behind Rietveld...these types of topics can be difficult to grasp and then understand well. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a genius when it comes to X-ray theory; I'm better on the experimental side of things. I'm also not the kind of guy to understand a concept through equations, I need words and clear images to paint a picture to allow me to visualize what is going on. I figure that I'm not the only person like this though; there's probably a lot of people who are similar. My goal is to make content to help those people. Unfortunately, it is very time consuming to figure out how to simply a complex topic, which means this series will likely take much longer to complete than I anticipated. I hope that my viewers and subscribers will be patient with me! Anyway, this comment is longer than I intended. I just want to thank you again for your kind words. You didn't have to take the time to comment what you did, but it was very kind of you to do so. I hope you enjoy the rest of the channel's content, and let me know if you have any specific questions in the comment sections!
I appreciate that! The first one will release either in the next 24 hours or right after the weekend. Thankfully, I have a number of other presentations made, I just have to record and edit the audio.
Thank you very much for your high quality content and dedication.
Really hope your channel will be seen by many more people.
I got solo-access to a xrd about a year ago and since then I'm more or less teaching myself with literature and webinars (to be honest, the whole reciprocal space, symmetry and rietveld - thematics are very challenging, but "simple" measurements and phase qualification is getting better).
My high-score software version is quite old (2.2) and the refinement controls aren't like in your tutorials, I guess the database is a bit outdated, too.
Your content is incredibly helpful and your slightly longer introduction-video got me hooked.
I'm very interested and looking forward to your next video - series, already ordered the book you recommended.
Wish you and Benjamin all the best.
@WWC94 Wow, that message means a lot! I really never thought when I started this channel that it would have much reach outside of the users of my own lab, but knowing that it helps others has really encouraged me to keep it up and expand, even when the thought of expanding is a bit...intimidating.
My intention was to produce only training videos on how to use our instruments. However, making videos focused more on the science behind X-ray diffraction has actually helped me as well. You don't REALLY know a topic until you try to teach it. As you said, stuff like reciprocal space, the details behind Rietveld...these types of topics can be difficult to grasp and then understand well. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a genius when it comes to X-ray theory; I'm better on the experimental side of things. I'm also not the kind of guy to understand a concept through equations, I need words and clear images to paint a picture to allow me to visualize what is going on. I figure that I'm not the only person like this though; there's probably a lot of people who are similar. My goal is to make content to help those people. Unfortunately, it is very time consuming to figure out how to simply a complex topic, which means this series will likely take much longer to complete than I anticipated. I hope that my viewers and subscribers will be patient with me!
Anyway, this comment is longer than I intended. I just want to thank you again for your kind words. You didn't have to take the time to comment what you did, but it was very kind of you to do so. I hope you enjoy the rest of the channel's content, and let me know if you have any specific questions in the comment sections!
I am impatiently waiting for more videos...! Thanks
I appreciate that! The first one will release either in the next 24 hours or right after the weekend. Thankfully, I have a number of other presentations made, I just have to record and edit the audio.