BeamStop software platform launched

We’re pleased to introduce BeamStop — a new software platform we developed for spatially resolved X-ray diffraction (XRD) data.

BeamStop has been developed quietly over the past two years, in close connection with real experimental work. We’re now ready to bring it out of stealth.

The motivation was a clear gap. Techniques such as X-ray powder diffraction computed tomography have become exceptionally powerful for studying complex materials and devices, yet robust, user-friendly software environments for analysing chemically rich, spatially resolved diffraction data remain limited.

BeamStop provides an integrated, end-to-end analysis environment for spatially resolved diffraction datasets, bringing together interactive data exploration, mask creation, dimensionality reduction, peak fitting, and spatially resolved structural analysis using the Rietveld method. The platform also incorporates GPU-accelerated Rietveld refinement and AI-based tools such as PQ-Net to enable ultra-fast analysis of large diffraction datasets.

The aim is to establish BeamStop as the go-to workflow platform for chemical imaging data analysis offering, for the first time, a complete and user-friendly environment that unifies these capabilities within a single piece of software.

If you are interested in learning more or in purchasing BeamStop, please get in touch at software@finden.co.uk 

Scientific Computing team: Hongyang Dong, Evangelos Papoutsellis, Antonis Vamvakeros and Simon Jacques. Find out more on the team page.

Beamstop instruction videos on YouTube – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPjufyNEPedM3ebV4xRVJ4T6EyvSdnNUw&si=YwC7AGiW02Qtgs-d