Formation of Standing Waves Within Crystal Unitcell

Bhanumoorthy Pullooru

Published May 28, 2021• 2 citations

Abstract

Abstract We show that the historic Davisson-Germer experiment demonstrates formation of standing waves within nickel crystal unitcell. Cartesian Fourier transform cannot offer description in terms of standing waves because Cartesian Fourier theory cannot accommodate π in place of 2π. Thus, formation of standing waves within unitcell in Davisson-Germer experiment necessarily requires spherical polar coordinate description of crystal diffraction. Description in spherical polar coordinates permits to incorporate precision angles from the experiment for better convergence in structure determination calculations.

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-506068/v1

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