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Applications that would benefit from the described achievements are commonly bottlenecked by a lack of general procedures to interpret intensity data. Recently, it was suggested to interpret STEM data by extraction of single atom scattering cross sections For HRTEM, Figure 8 highlights a suitable method for intensity quantification from reconstructed electron exit waves. 

The first factor in square brackets represents the Thomson cross-section for scattering from a free electron. The second square bracket describes the atomic arrangement of electrons through the atomic form factor, F, and incoherent scatter function, S. Finally, the last square bracket contains the factor s(x), the molecular interference function that describes the modification to the atomic scattering cross-section induced by the spatial arrangement of atoms in their molecules. 

Figure 8 shows some total free atom scatter cross-sections (F2 + S) derived from the tabulation of Hubbel et al. [22], At zero momentum transfer, the ordinate is simply Z2. For all species apart from hydrogen, the cross-section falls (note the logarithmic scale) rapidly with increasing x. 

In Section 2.3.1., the diffraction profile was fitted to IAM atomic scatter cross-sections in the region where the molecular interference function is practically unity. This procedure yields the effective atomic number and, particularly for liquids, several further parameters derived from peaks in the molecular interference function. With... 

The identity of target elements is established by the energy of the scattered particles after an elastic collision. The number of atoms per unit area, N, is found from the number of detected particles (called the yield, Y) for a given number Q of particles incident on the target. The connection is given by the scattering cross section a(9) by... 

If the displacements of the atoms are given in terms of the harmonic normal modes of vibration for the crystal, the coherent one-phonon inelastic neutron scattering cross section can be analytically expressed in terms of the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the hannonic analysis, as described in Ref. 1. 

The relative number of particles backscattered from a target atom into a given solid angle for a given number of incident particles is related to the differential scattering cross section ... 

For a particular primary ion and fixed experimental conditions, the scattering cross-section is a function only of the mass and atomic number of the scattering atom, and can be calculated. Thus in principle, all the terms in Eq. (3.31) except the required Na are known. RBS is, therefore, an absolute method that does not require the use of standards. 

Table 4.1-1 Comparison of the neutron scattering cross-sections for Li and Li with all the other atoms present in a binary mixture of LiSCN with AICI3.

Two factors determine the intensity of the scattered beam the scattering cross section for the incident ion-target atom combination and the neutralization probability of the ion in its interaction with the solid. It is the latter quantity that makes LEIS surface sensitive 1 keV He ions have a neutralization probability of about 99 % on passing through one layer of substrate atoms. Hence, the majority of ions that reach the detector must have scattered off the outermost layer. At present, there is no simple theory to adequately describe the scattering cross section and the neutralization probability. However, satisfactory calibration procedures by use of reference samples exist. The fact that LEIS provides quantitative information on the... 

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