• Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction (3DXRD) is a microscopy technique using hard X-rays (with energy in the 30-100 keV range) to investigate the internal...
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    Powder diffraction is a scientific technique using X-ray, neutron, or electron diffraction on powder or microcrystalline samples for structural characterization...
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  • with nm-resolution using synchrotron X-ray diffraction-based imaging. The technique works by using scattered X-rays to create a high degree of contrast...
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    X-rays to diffract in specific directions. By measuring the angles and intensities of the X-ray diffraction, a crystallographer can produce a three-dimensional...
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  • X-ray diffraction computed tomography is an experimental technique that combines X-ray diffraction with the computed tomography data acquisition approach...
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    image resolution. Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI or CXD) uses x-rays (typically .5-4keV) to form a diffraction pattern which may be more attractive...
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    to X-rays for imaging applications. Other notable uses of X-rays include: X-ray crystallography in which the pattern produced by the diffraction of X-rays...
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    models particular in electron diffraction; in some cases similar dynamical diffraction models are also used for X-rays. It is possible to obtain a qualitative...
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    coherent soft X-ray diffraction microscopy. In 2008, X-ray imaging of an unstained virus was demonstrated. A year later, X-ray diffraction was further applied...
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    X-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction and electron diffraction. These three types of radiation interact with the specimen in different ways. X-rays interact...
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    analysis, the fluorescent X-rays emitted by the sample are directed into a diffraction grating-based monochromator. The diffraction grating used is usually...
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  • X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray...
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  • typically not suitable for X-ray diffraction because of their size. Crystals that are one billionth the size needed for X-ray crystallography can yield...
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  • gases and crystalline solids) for the solid state: X-ray, electron diffraction and neutron diffraction To identify connectivity and the presence of functional...
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    Fraunhofer diffraction). Electron diffraction is similar to x-ray and neutron diffraction. However, unlike x-ray and neutron diffraction where the simplest...
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    Fiber diffraction is a subarea of scattering, an area in which molecular structure is determined from scattering data (usually of X-rays, electrons or...
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    wavelengths (below 1 nm), X-rays overcome the diffraction limits of optical lithography, allowing smaller feature sizes. If the X-ray source isn't collimated...
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    used in microprobes (where X-ray microanalysis is the main task) and in XRF; it is widely used in the field of X-ray diffraction to calculate various data...
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  • structure and chemical composition, often determined by clay mineral X-ray diffraction. Sometimes fine grain sediments are mistakenly described as clays;...
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  • Thumbnail for Selected area diffraction
    similar to X-ray diffraction, but unique in that areas as small as several hundred nanometres in size can be examined, whereas X-ray diffraction typically...
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    Precession electron diffraction (PED) is a specialized method to collect electron diffraction patterns in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). By...
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  • Ewald's sphere (category Diffraction)
    neutron, and x-ray diffraction which shows the relationship between: the wavevector of the incident and diffracted beams, the diffraction angle for a given...
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    limit to its resolution due to the physics of diffraction. An optical instrument is said to be diffraction-limited if it has reached this limit of resolution...
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    electron diffraction mode where a map of the angles of the electrons leaving the sample is produced. The advantages of electron diffraction over X-ray crystallography...
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    and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. concerning precise metric three-dimensional information: can be obtained for gases by gas electron diffraction and...
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  • combining images with electron diffraction information, or in some cases by collecting three dimensional electron diffraction data by a number of different...
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    above). CBED differs from conventional electron diffraction in that CBED patterns consist of diffraction disks, rather than spots. The width of CBED disks...
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    into three different categories: incommensurate modulated structures, incommensurate composite structures, and quasicrystals. The X-ray diffraction patterns...
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  • in a non-ideal crystal lattice. X-ray diffraction topography is one variant of X-ray imaging, making use of diffraction contrast rather than absorption...
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    major advance of coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), which was first experimentally demonstrated in 1999 using synchrotron X-rays and iterative phase retrieval...
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