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July 1998 issue

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Cover illustration: Power spectrum of a high-resolution electron-microscopy image of NiAl. The image calculation includes a realistic phonon spectrum by coupling the `molecular dynamics' and `multislice' simulation techniques. The diffuse background, satellite peaks and bands mirror the effect of thermal diffuse scattering and correlated atom vibrations. Courtesy of G. Möbus, T. Gemming and P. Gumbsch.

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This paper presents an arithmetic approach to the symmetry of complex crystalline structures (multilattices). This generalizes the one classically used for simple lattices and gives a finer description of multilattice symmetry than that obtained through space groups.

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A geometrical model of the quasicrystal-to-crystal transformation based on small atomic displacements including phason flips is discussed using the example of decagonal Al–Co–Ni.

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A method to obtain the crystal potential from the intensities of diffracted beams in high-energy electron diffraction is proposed.

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Background intensities are summarized in a model defining an accurate reference level upon which the coherent Bragg intensities are superimposed. The background model reduces the random errors on I net eliminating the background as an error component.

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A three-beam diffraction experiment is described in which circularly polarized X-rays are used. Different azimuthal plots are observed when the helicity of the incident beam is switched, in accordance with a noncentrosymmetric structure.

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The Takagi–Taupin equations for two beams are analysed using the boundary-value Green function technique for the case of symmetrical diffraction in a perfect rectangular × l crystal. Analytical and numerical results are presented for the extinction and absorption factors.

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The analytical expression for the energy of an unrelaxed stacking fault in a n-dimensional ordered alloy is given in terms of the pair-potential functions.

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The maximum-entropy–likelihood method of solving crystal structures from powder diffraction data is extended to include the estimation of the individual intensities of the overlapping reflections using Duncan's statistical procedure combined with likelihood estimation.

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A method of calculation of the thermodynamic functions from accurate X-ray diffraction data has been developed. The isotope-reduced partition-function ratio β D/H for the LiH (LiD) crystal and the separation factor α D/H for the isotope exchange in the solid–gas Li(H,D)–(H2,D2) system have been calculated.

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A new two-dimensional Bloch-wave method is developed for dynamical RHEED calculations.

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For electron dynamic thermal diffuse scattering, it is proved for the first time that the calculation based on the `frozen lattice' model gives an identical result to the quantum inelastic phonon excitation theory if the incoherence between different orders of diffuse scattering is considered. This conclusion holds for both high- and low-energy electrons and it establishes the quantum-mechanical basis of many existing theories.

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The re-analysis of high-precision photon diffraction data in beryllium, diamond, silicon, copper and germanium is carried out for an accurate comparison with local density approximation calculations.

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Elastic electron scattering factors of 106 ions are represented in a parameterized form and it is shown that for most transmission electron diffraction applications the effect of crystal ionicity on the absorptive electron scattering may be neglected.

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A hypothesis is put forward concerning the existence of the general relation between aperiodic crystal structures and the invariants of the group of the automorphisms of the d-dimensional torus. A relation is proved between the one-dimensional and two-dimensional displacive modulations and the rationality of some invariants of the group of automorphisms of both the circle S1 and the torus T2.

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The Hartman–Perdok theory for the prediction of crystal morphology is reformulated on the basis of F faces having a roughening temperature higher than 0 K. The presence of multiple connected nets for a single orientation can give rise to symmetry roughening and high growth rates.

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All cases where symmetry may lead to symmetric roughening for pairs of connected nets of the crystal structure are derived. Symmetry roughening has severe implications for crystal morphology.

short communications


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An analytical formula is derived for the primary extinction factor in the Bragg limit in the case of a perfect spherical crystal. The result is compared with the corresponding Laue limit.

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A compilation of temperature factors for 14 h.c.p. elements is presented.

Acta Cryst. (1998). A54, 515
doi: 10.1107/S0108767398007284

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Acta Cryst. (1998). A54, 516
doi: 10.1107/S010876739809998X

Acta Cryst. (1998). A54, 516
doi: 10.1107/S0108767398099978
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