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| Format: | Preprint |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0341 |
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- Precession Electron Diffraction (PED) offers a number of advantages for crystal structure analysis and solving unknown structures using electron diffraction. The current article uses many-beam simulations of PED intensities, in combination with model structures, to arrive at a better understanding of how PED differs from standard unprecessed electron diffraction. It is shown that precession reduces the chaotic oscillatory behavior of electron diffraction intensities as a function of thickness. An additional characteristic of PED which is revealed by simulations is reduced sensitivity to structure factor phases. This is shown to be a general feature of dynami-cal intensities collected under conditions in which patterns with multiple incident beam orienta-tions are averaged together. A new and significantly faster method is demonstrated for dynami-cal calculations of PED intensities, based on using information contained in off-central columns of the scattering matrix.