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Coherent Diffractive Imaging is a lensless technique that allows imaging of matter at a spatial resolution not limited by lens aberrations. This technique exploits the measured diffraction pattern of a coherent beam scattered by periodic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alessandro Colombo , Davide Emilio Galli , Liberato De Caro , Francesco Scattarella , Elvio Carlino

Implementation of a fast, robust, and fully-automated pipeline for crystal structure determination and underlying strain mapping for crystalline materials is important for many technological applications. Scanning electron nanodiffraction…

The projected electrostatic potential of a thick crystal is reconstructed at atomic-resolution from experimental scanning transmission electron microscopy data recorded using a new generation fast- readout electron camera. This practical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-02 Hamish G. Brown , Zhen Chen , Matthew Weyland , Colin Ophus , Jim Ciston , Les J. Allen , Scott D. Findlay

The use of strongly bent crystals in spectrometers for pulses of a hard x-ray free-electron laser is explored theoretically. Diffraction is calculated in both dynamical and kinematical theories. It is shown that diffraction can be treated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-28 Vladimir Kaganer , Ilia Petrov , Liubov Samoylova

The advantages of convergent beam electron diffraction for symmetry determination at the scale of a few nm are well known. In practice, the approach is often limited due to the restriction on the angular range of the electron beam imposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-09 Richard Beanland , Paul J. Thomas , David I. Woodward , Pamela A. Thomas , Rudolf A. Roemer

The resolution of X-ray diffraction microscopy is limited by the maximum dose that can be delivered prior to sample damage. In the proposed Serial Crystallography method, the damage problem is addressed by distributing the total dose over…

The diffraction of fast atoms at crystal surfaces is ideal for a detailed investigation of the surface electronic density. However, instead of sharp diffraction spots, most experiments show elongated streaks characteristic of inelastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Philippe Roncin , Maxime Debiossac

Emerging coherent X-ray scattering patterns of single-particles have shown dominant morphological signatures in agreement with predictions of the scattering model used for conventional protein crystallography. The key question is if and to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-28 Aliakbar Jafarpour

The algebraic approach to the phase problem for the case of X-ray scattering from an ideal crystal is extended to the case of the neutron scattering, overcoming the difficulty related to the non-positivity of the scattering density. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cervellino , S. Ciccariello

Nanobeam electron diffraction can probe local structural properties of complex crystalline materials including phase, orientation, tilt, strain, and polarization. Ideally, each diffraction pattern from a projected area of a few unit cells…

In coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy the diffraction pattern generated by a sample illuminated with coherent x-rays is recorded, and a computer algorithm recovers the unmeasured phases to synthesize an image. By avoiding the use of a…

We study X-ray diffraction in smectic liquid crystal multilayers. Such systems are fabricated as freely suspended films and have a unique layered structure. As such, they can be described as organic Bragg mirrors with sub-nanometer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 V. V. Samsonov , K. V. Nikolaev , B. I. Ostrovskii , S. N. Yakunin

X-ray diffraction was demonstrated from shock-compressed polycrystalline metal on nanosecond time scales. Laser ablation was used to induce shock waves in polycrystalline foils of Be, 25 to 125 microns thick. A second laser pulse was used…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-23 Damian C. Swift

Established x-ray diffraction methods allow for high-resolution structure determination of crystals, crystallized protein structures or even single molecules. While these techniques rely on coherent scattering, incoherent processes like…

Since the discovery of electron-wave duality, electron scattering instrumentation has developed into a powerful array of techniques for revealing the atomic structure of matter. Beyond detecting local lattice variations in equilibrium…

Phase invariants are important pieces of information about the atomic structures of crystals. There are several mathematical methods in X-ray crystallography to estimate phase invariants. The multi-wave diffraction phenomenon offers a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Sérgio L. Morelhão , Luis H. Avanci , Stefan Kycia

We present a simplified model for dynamical diffraction of particles through a periodic thick perfect crystal based on repeated application of a coherent beam splitting unitary at coarse-grained lattice sites. By demanding translational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 J. Nsofini , K. Ghofrani , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , D. A. Pushin

Recent interest in structure solution and refinement using electron diffraction (ED) has been fuelled by its inherent advantages when applied to crystals of sub-micron size, as well as a better sensitivity to light elements. Currently, data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Anton Cleverley , Richard Beanland

We develop a theory for the trajectory of an x ray in the presence of a crystal deformation. A set of equations of motion for an x-ray wave packet including the dynamical diffraction is derived, taking into account the Berry phase as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Kei Sawada , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

Conventional X-ray methods use incoming plane waves and result in discrete diffraction patterns when scattered at crystals. Here we find, by a systematic method, incoming waveforms which exhibit discrete diffraction patterns when scattered…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gero Friesecke , Richard D. James , Dominik Jüstel