Structure retrieval in liquid-phase electron scattering
Abstract
Electron scattering on liquid samples has been enabled recently by the development of ultrathin liquid sheet technologies. The data treatment of liquid-phase electron scattering has been mostly reliant on methodologies developed for gas electron diffraction, in which theoretical inputs and empirical fittings are often needed to account for the atomic form factor and remove the inelastic scattering background. The accuracy and impact of these theoretical and empirical inputs has not been benchmarked for liquid-phase electron scattering data. In this work, we present an alternative data treatment method that requires neither theoretical inputs nor empirical fittings. The merits of this new method are illustrated through the retrieval of real-space molecular structure from experimental electron scattering patterns of liquid water, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, and dichloromethane.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.04234,
title = {Structure retrieval in liquid-phase electron scattering},
author = {Jie Yang and J. Pedro F. Nunes and Kathryn Ledbetter and Elisa Biasin and Martin Centurion and Zhijiang Chen and Amy A. Cordones and Christ Crissman and Daniel P. Deponte and Siegfried H. Glenzer and Ming-Fu Lin and Mianzhen Mo and Conor D. Rankine and Xiaozhe Shen and Thomas J. A. Wolf and Xijie Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.04234},
year = {2021}
}