P. Fraundorf, Bernard J. Feldman, W. Garver, M. Freeman, D. Proctor
Louis deBroglie's connection between momentum and spatial-frequency vectors is perhaps most viscerally-experienced via the real-time access that electron-diffraction provides to transverse slices of a crystal's reciprocal lattice. The classic introductory (and/or advanced) physics lab-experiment on microwave Bragg-scattering can with a bit of re-arrangement also give students access to "zone-axis-pattern" slices through the 3D spatial-frequency (i.e. reciprocal) lattice of a ball-bearing crystal. In this paper we show how data from the standard experimental set up can be used to generate zone-axis-patterns oriented down the crystal rotation-axis. This may be used to give students direct experience with crystal shape-transforms (which help to explain anomalous peaks), as well as to the complementary relation between non-Cartesian basis-vectors in direct and reciprocal (co-vector) space.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7663
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