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A New Method of obtaining the N Pattern of Electron Diffraction

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THE N pattern of electron diffraction was first obtained from a thin piece of mica. It has not been obtained for many substances because of the technical difficulty of preparing single crystal films of suitable thickness for electron penetration.

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YAMAGUCHI, S. A New Method of obtaining the N Pattern of Electron Diffraction. Nature 147, 296–297 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147296b0

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