Talk:Structure factor
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[edit] Notation
I've changed some of the notation in this article, the most important changes are:
- I would like to use F for the structure factor instead of S, since this seems to be the preferred notation of the International Union of Crystallography.
- I've introduced the scattering vector
to emphasize that we are dealing with a general scattering of the radiation, which only under certain assumptions reduces to scattering vectors equal to a reciprocal lattice vector.
- I would also like to change the notation in the last part to use h, k and l as Miller indices. This is consistent with the Miller index article and standard use. Also we should use e.g.
for the basis vector of the reciprocal lattice.
O. Prytz 20:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vector Notation
ri is a vector representing the position of atom i. However, in the worked examples on body-centered and face-centered cubics, r0, r1, r2 and r3 weren't represented as vectors in bold. This has been changed as it caused confusion to those not so familiar with the topic.
