Application of MEM to single-crystal data on silicon

A particularly interesting application of the MEM is the analysis by Sakata and Sato (1990) of the very accurate Pendellosung data of Saka and Kato (1968). With 

When it is assumed that the phases of the structure factors are unknown, the analysis proceeds well, after fixing the origin of the cubic unit cell by choosing the sign of the strong (111) reflection. This corresponds to a direct structure determination without any prior knowledge of the structure, and supports the value of the maximum entropy method in the early stages of structure determination. 

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