Question

Do electron diffraction experiments give different information about crystals than can be obtained from x-ray diffraction experiments? From neutron diffraction experiments? Discuss.

Answer 1

The results with different diffraction may differ because electron diffraction and neutron diffraction is a kind of particle behaving as wave whose wavelength given by debroglie wavelength which further depends on momentum of the particle but in diffraction calculation we use wavelength as an important part of calculation. Hence, difference in momentum led to difference in wavelenth which further enhance the result of diffraction experiments.

On other side, X-ray is a kind of wave which have fixed wavelength.

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