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Planes of graphite crystal on diffraction experiments

When doing electron diffraction on graphite (a popular experiment for students at universities) always diffraction at these two planes with distances $d_1$ and $d_2$ are observed: But a plane ...
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X-ray diffraction from Metals

Is X-ray crystallography is possible for metals? Or not due to absorption?
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Calculating diffraction patterns using FFT

I'm trying to write a piece of code that calculates a diffraction pattern similar to an X-ray experiment using a FFT. From my knowledge, the diffraction pattern for point particles can be calculated ...
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X-ray diffraction from crystals and time-averaging

To calculate the elastically scattered intensity of x-rays from crystals, one classically considers scattering from a free electron first and then one sums up the scattered em-fields of all electrons ...