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Identification and Determination of Crystal Structures and
Identification and Determination of Crystal Structures and

... d. Rotating the regularly spaced lines into a horizontal position results in a vertical row of spots. The optical transform of a cross grating of regularly spaced lines is a pattern of spots regularly spaced along two perpendicular directions. The spot pattern is the optical analog of the diffractio ...
Crystalline Solids: Diffraction
Crystalline Solids: Diffraction

Structure factor

In condensed matter physics and crystallography, the static structure factor (or structure factor for short) is a mathematical description of how a material scatters incident radiation. The structure factor is a particularly useful tool in the interpretation of interference patterns obtained in X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction experiments.The static structure factor is measured without resolving the energy of scattered photons/electrons/neutrons. Energy-resolved measurements yield the dynamic structure factor.