Formulation of perfect-crystal diffraction from Takagi-Taupin equations. Numerical implementation in the crystalpy library
Computational Physics
2024-06-26 v1 Materials Science
Optics
Abstract
The Takagi-Taupin equations are solved in their simplest form (zero deformation) to obtain the Bragg-diffracted and transmitted complex amplitudes. The case of plane-parallel crystal plates is discussed using a matrix model. The equations are implemented in an open-source python library crystalpy adapted for numerical applications such as crystal reflectivity calculations and ray tracing.
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@article{arxiv.2406.16960,
title = {Formulation of perfect-crystal diffraction from Takagi-Taupin equations. Numerical implementation in the crystalpy library},
author = {Jean-Pierre Guigay and Manuel Sanchez del Rio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16960},
year = {2024}
}
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11 pages, 6 figures