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Starting in Chapter 3, the kinematical theory of diffraction has been developed by calculating the diffracted wave from crystals with increasing amounts of disorder. The amplitude of the diffracted wave, ψ, is the sum of phase factors of wavelets emitted from individual atoms. We have evaluated these sums analytically (as a geometric series, for example), graphically (with a phase-amplitude diagram), and numerically. These calculations of ψ( Δk) were performed for crystals having only small departures from ideality, such as crystals of small size, crystals with strain distributions, or isolated defects imaged with a TEM. In many respects these calculations were extensions of the calculation of wave interference from atoms in a perfect crystal. Recall that the phase information in ψ( Δk) includes details of atom positions, which can be obtained by inverse Fourier transformation, F -1 ψ.
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Further Reading
J. M. Cowley: Diffraction Physics, 2nd edn. (North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam 1975).
C. Barrett and T. B. Massalski: Structure of Metals, 3rd edn. (Pergamon Press, Oxford 1980).
A. Guinier: X-Ray Diffraction in Crystals, Imperfect Crystals, and Amorphous Bodies(Dover, Mineola NY, 1994).
Harold P. Klug and Leroy E. Alexander: X-Ray Diffraction Procedures(Wiley-Interscience, New York 1974).
M. A. Krivoglaz: Theory of X-ray and Thermal Neutron Scattering by Real Crystals(Plenum Press, New York 1969).
L. H. Schwartz and J. B. Cohen: Diffraction from Materials, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1987).
B. E. Warren: X-Ray Diffraction(Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1969).
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Fultz, B., Howe, J.M. (2001). Patterson Functions and Diffuse Scattering. In: Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04516-9_9
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