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Precession Electron Diffraction has become an increasingly popular method of obtaining crystallographic data, and may well replace older methods such as selected area diffraction or microdiffraction. While a full model has to involve a dynamical calculation, some approximations give some indication how the results vary as a function of thickness and precession angle. This note reviews some of the basic models, their advantages and failures as well as some of the open issues.
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Marks, L.D. (2012). Models for Precession Electron Diffraction. In: Kolb, U., Shankland, K., Meshi, L., Avilov, A., David, W. (eds) Uniting Electron Crystallography and Powder Diffraction. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5580-2_26
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