Kinematic diffraction is an approximation for diffraction of waves. It assumes that the waves are only scattered once, neglecting multiple scattering . For linear wave equations , it involves summing the contribution of the partial waves emanating from different scatterers, where only the incident field drives the scattering. As a consequence, the far-field amplitude essentially corresponds to the Fourier transform of the scattering length density, which would be the charge density for x-rays[ 1] [ 2] Born approximation applied to a number of scatterers, and as such is often used for X-ray crystallography .[ 3] dynamical theory of diffraction . For x-rays[ 4] electron diffraction different approaches are used to calculating the dynamical diffraction for transmission with high-energy electrons[ 5] [ 6] low energy electron diffraction [ 7] reflection high-energy electron diffraction [ 8]
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