Synchrotron-related techniques

thumb|A crystalline solid: atomic resolution image of strontium titanate. Brighter spots are columns of [[strontium atoms and darker ones are titanium-oxygen columns.]] thumb|Octahedral and tetrahedral interstitial sites in a face centered cubic structure thumb|Kikuchi lines (physics)|Kikuchi lines in an [[electron backscatter diffraction pattern of monocrystalline silicon, taken at 20 kV with a field-emission electron source]]

technique used for determining the atomic or molecular structure of a crystal, in which the ordered atoms cause a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into specific directions

electromagnetic radiation emitted when charged particles are accelerated radially

thumb|The first synchrotron to use the "racetrack" design with straight sections, a 300 MeV electron synchrotron at University of Michigan in 1949, designed by Dick Crane A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The strength of the magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases with time during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles.

fourier transform of real-space lattices, important in solid-state physics

physical phenomenon

experimental method in X-ray diffraction

distribution of crystallographic orientations of a polycrystalline sample

synchrotron radiation-based spectroscopy

particle accelerator designed to produce intense x-ray beams

Emission of secondary X-rays from a material excited by high-energy X-rays

amount of momentum that one particle gives to another particle