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The Laue_crystal_BC Component

* * Perfect, laue 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: June, 2017

Description

* NIST_Laue_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
* 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.
* Perfect crystal with common cubic structures (diamond, fcc, or bcc, and others if symmetry form factor multipliers provided explicitly)
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* Reads atomic form factors from a data input file.
* The Laue_Crystal code reflects rays in an ideal geometry, does not include surface imperfections or mosaicity.
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* The crystal is positioned such that the long axis of the crystal surface coincides with
* z-axis and the outer normal to the crystal surface is along +y.
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* The ratio of the transmitted beam and forward-diffracted Borrman-effect beam is a hack.  The sum of the
* two is exactly right, but the actual ratio depends critically on geometry, and I just put in a wild estimate
* to allow one to demonstrate what the Borrmann effect looks like. If this is turned on, the displacement of the
* transmitted beam and forward diffracted beam at the back side of the crystal will be correctly computed.
* This displacement is only exact for symmetrical Laue; asymmetrical computation requires more effort,
* and is probably not worth it.
* The sampling of these processes are controlled by the 3 variables transmission_sampling, forward_diffraction_sampling,
* and laue_sampling. Since 99% of uses of this will have the transmitted beam turned off, and use laue diffraction mode,
* the values should be just 0,0,1. If the general behavior of the transmitted beams
* is interesting, use 1,1,1 which samples all beams equally.  Results weights are adjusted for this,
* so computed intensities won't be affected.
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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
thickness			1e-4
V			160.1826
form_factors			"FormFactors.txt"
material			"Si.txt"
alphax			0.0
alphay			0.0
alphaz			1.0
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
transmission_sampling			1.0
forward_diffraction_sampling			1.0
laue_sampling			1.0

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

Links

• Source code for Laue_crystal_BC.comp.

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