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The Bragg_crystal_bent_BC Component

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

Identification

Description

Bragg_crystal_bent_BC.com is intended to supercede Bragg_Crystal_bent.comp
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

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

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.

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.

The asummetry angle alpha is defined so that positive alpha reduces the Bragg angle to the plane i.e. alpha=Thetain grazes the planes.
if alpha!=0,  one should restrict to rays which have small kx values, since otherwise the alpha rotation is not
around the diffraction axis.

The mirror is positioned such that the a-axis of the mirror ellipsoid is on the
z-axis, the b-axis is along the y-axis and the c is along the x-axis.
The reference point of the mirror is the ellipsoid centre, offset by one half-axis along the y-axis.
(See the component manual for a drawing).

Notation follows Tadashi Matsushita and Hiro-O Hashizume, X-RAY MONOCHROMATORS. Handbook on Synchrotron Radiation,North-Holland Publishing Company, 1:263–274, 1983.

NOTE: elliptical coordinate code and documentation taken from Mirror_elliptic.comp distributed in McXtrace v1.2
written by: Erik Knudsen. However, the coordinates are rotated to be consistent with Perfect_Crystal.comp and NIST_Perfect_Crystal.comp
Idealized elliptic mirror with surface ellipse and lattice ellipses independent, to allow construction of
Johansson optics, for example.

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.

Example: Bragg_crystal_bent_BC( length=0.05, width=0.02, V=160.1826, h=1, k=1, l=1, alpha=0)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.
NameUnitDescriptionDefault
x_am1st short half axis (along x). Commonly set to zero, which really implies infinite value, so crystal is an elliptic cylinder.0
y_bm2nd short half axis (along y), which is also the presumed near-normal direction, reflection near the y-z plane.1.0
z_cmLong half axis (along z). Commonly a=0. b=c, which creates a circular cylindrical surface.1.0
lattice_x_amCurvature matrix component around a for underlying lattice, for bent/ground/rebent crystals0
lattice_y_bmCurvature matrix component around b for underlying lattice, for bent/ground/rebent crystals1.0
lattice_z_cmcurvature matrix component around c for underlying lattice, for bent/ground/rebent crystals THERE HAS BEEN NO TESTING for the case in which lattice_x_a != x_a.1.0
lengthmz depth (length) of the crystal.0.05
widthmx width of the crystal.0.02
VAA^3unit cell volume160.1826
form_factors"FormFactors.txt"
material Si, Ge (maybe also GaAs?)"Si.txt"
alpharadAsymmetry angle (alpha=0 for symmetric reflection, i.e. the Bragg planes are parallel to the crystal surface)0.0
R0 Reflectivity. Overrides the computed Darwin reflectivity. Probably only useful for debugging.0
debye_waller_BAA^2Debye-Waller temperature factor, M=B*(sin(theta)/lambda)^2*(2/3), default=silicon at room temp.0.4632
crystal_type 1 => Mx_crystal_explicit: provide explicit real and imaginary form factor multipliers structure_factor_scale_r, structure_factor_scale_i; 2 => Mx_crystal_diamond: diamond; 3 => Mx_crystal_fcc: fcc; 4 => Mx_crystal_fcc: bcc1
h Miller index of reflection1
k Miller index of reflection1
l Miller index of reflection1
structure_factor_scale_r0.0
structure_factor_scale_i0.0
verbose if non-zero: Output more information (warnings and messages) to the console.0
AT ( , , ) RELATIVE
ROTATED ( , , ) RELATIVE

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