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The traditional Bragg crystal diffraction experiments use X-rays, harming the participants bodies. Therefore, many universities have not offered this basic experiment. Although microwave simulation Bragg experiments can reduce harm, there…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-05-21 Qiusong Chen , Wei Hou , Song Lin , GaoFu Liu , Weiyao Jia

The model of nonlinear interaction of proper waves of photonic crystal with plane acoustic wave was developed. The formulation of the model is reduced to the eigenvalue problem, which can be solved by computer simulations. By means of the…

Optics · Physics 2010-01-12 Z. A. Pyatakova

The DXRD program suite consisting of a series of dynamical-theory programs is introduced for computing dynamical X-ray diffraction from single crystals. Its interactive graphic user interfaces (GUIs) allow general users to make complicated…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-29 XianRong Huang , Lahsen Assoufid

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

A growing number of shock compression experiments, especially those involving laser compression, are taking advantage of in situ x-ray diffraction as a tool to interrogate structure and microstructure evolution. Although these experiments…

We present proof-of-concept imaging measurements of a polycrystalline material that integrate the elements of conventional high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy with coherent diffraction imaging techniques, and that can enable in-situ…

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD) is the gold standard technique to characterize crystal structures in solid state. Despite significant advances in automation for structure solution, the refinement stage still depends heavily on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Wen-Lin Luo , Yi Yuan , Cheng-Hui Li , Yue Zhao , Jing-Lin Zuo

Hyperspectral neutron tomography is an effective method for analyzing crystalline material samples with complex compositions in a non-destructive manner. Since the counts in the hyperspectral neutron radiographs directly depend on the…

Dark-field x-ray microscopy utilizes Bragg diffraction to collect full-field x-ray images of "mesoscale" structure of ordered materials. Information regarding the structural heterogeneities and their physical implications is gleaned through…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-31 Omar Abulshohoud , Ishwor Poudyal , Jessica McChesney , Zhan Zhang , Zhi Qiao , Ulrich Welp , Zahir Islam

Electron diffraction through a thin patterned silicon membrane can be used to create complex spatial modulations in electron distributions by varying the intensity of different reflections using parameters such as crystallographic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 L. E. Malin , W. S. Graves , M. Holl , J. C. H. Spence , E. A. Nanni , R. K. Li , X. Shen , S. Weathersby

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 present a measurement protocol and a data reduction workflow for obtaining single-crystal X-ray total-scattering datasets that capture both Bragg-peak and diffuse scattering intensities on an absolute (electrons2/atom) scale. We further…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-23 S. Gorfman , M. Eremenko , V. Krayzman , A. Bosak , P. Y. Zavalij , I. Levin

We achieved a tripling of the maximum range of perpendicular momentum transfer (q_z) of X-ray scattering from liquid surfaces using a double crystal deflector setup to tilt the incident X-ray beam. This is obtained by using Miller indices…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-28 Oleg Konovalov , Valentina Belova , Mehdi Saedi , Irene Groot , Gilles Renaud , Maciej Jankowski

Diffraction methods are at the heart of structure determination of solids. While Bragg-like scattering (pure point diffraction) is a characteristic feature of crystals and quasicrystals, it is not straightforward to interpret continuous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-26 Michael Baake , Uwe Grimm

We report the development of deep learning coherent electron diffractive imaging at sub-angstrom resolution using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with only simulated data. We experimentally demonstrate this method by applying…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-19 Dillan J. Chang , Colum M. O'Leary , Cong Su , Salman Kahn , Alex Zettl , Jim Ciston , Peter Ercius , Jianwei Miao

Modern technology for producing extremely bright and coherent X-ray laser pulses provides the possibility to acquire a large number of diffraction patterns from individual biological nanoparticles, including proteins, viruses, and DNA.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-11 Stefan Engblom , Carl Nettelblad , Jing Liu

Theoretical aspects of x-ray standing wave method for investigation of the real structure of crystals are considered in this review paper. Starting from the general approach of the secondary radiation yield from deformed crystals this…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 I. A. Vartanyants , M. V. Kovalchuk

Behavior of X-rays diffracted in a perfect or quasi-perfect crystal can be described by the dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction. Study on the two-beam cases in which only transmitted and one reflected X-ray beams are strong has a history…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Kouhei Okitsu

The use of coherent x-ray beams has been greatly developing for the past decades. They are now used by a wide scientific community to study biological materials, phase transitions in crystalline materials, soft matter, magnetism, strained…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-01 V. L. R. Jacques , S. Ravy , D. Le Bolloc'h , E. Pinsolle , M. Sauvage-Simkin , F. Livet

Owing to their tunability and versatility, the two-dimensional materials are an excellent platform to conduct a variety of experiments. However, laborious device fabrication procedures remain as a major experimental challenge. One…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Stephan Kim