The `Bragg_crystal_BC` Component

* * Perfect, reflecting crystal with common cubic structures (diamond, fcc, or bcc, and others if symmetry form factor multipliers provided explicitly) * *

Identification

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Author: Marcus H Mendenhall, NIST
Origin: Marcus H. Mendenhall, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Date: May, 2017

Description

* Bragg_crystal_BC.comp models is intended to supercede Bragg_Crystal.comp.
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* For details see:
* The optics of focusing bent-crystal monochromators on X-ray powder diffractometers with application to lattice parameter determination and microstructure analysis,
* Marcus H. Mendenhall,* David Black and James P. Cline, J. Appl. Cryst. (2019). 52, https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576719010951
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* Reads atomic formfactors from a data input file.
* The Bragg_Crystal code reflects ray in an ideal geometry, does not include surface imperfections or mosaicity
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* The crystal code reflects ray in an ideal geometry, i.e. does not include surface imperfections or mosaicity.
* The crystal planes from which the reflection is made lies in the X-Z plane on the unbent crystal rotated
* by an angle alpha about the Y axis with respect to the crystal surface.
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* The crystal itself is set in the X-Z plane positioned such that the long axis of the crystal surface coincides with
* the Z-axis, withs normal pointing in the poisitivce Y-direction.
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* N.B. The component does not work for rays hitting the back of the monochromator.
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* Bragg_crystal_BC.comp is written by Marcus H. Mendenhall, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
* It is based on the full vector math and exact solution of the dispersion relation in
* Batterman and Cole, Reviews of Modern Physics 36 number 3, page 681, July 1964
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* This code has been validated against both experimental data
* (2 channel-cut 3-bounce Si 440 crystals together in non-dispersive mode, at Cu kalpha)
* and against theoretical rocking rocking curves from XOP for Si220 at Sc kalpha and Si440 at Cu kalpha.
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* Non-copyright notice:
* Contributed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology; not subject to copyright in the United States.
* This is not an official contribution, in that the results are in no way certified by NIST.
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Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
length			0.05
width			0.02
V			160.1826
form_factors			"FormFactors.txt"
material			"Si.txt"
alphax			0.0
alphay			1.0
alphaz			0.0
R0			0
debye_waller_B			0.4632
crystal_type			1
h			1
k			1
l			1
structure_factor_scale_r			0.0
structure_factor_scale_i			0.0

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

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The Bragg_crystal_BC Component

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The `Bragg_crystal_BC` Component