Abstract

Measurement of conventional-cell data requires observations along several specific zone axes in most cases. On the contrary, as shown in and outlined below, primitive-cell data can be extracted ab-initio, without trial-and-error, from single CBED patterns exposed along any zone axis, and displaying at least ZOLZ and first-order Laue-zone (FOLZ) spots.The CRYSTDAT database, which is up-to-date and accessible on-line, contains over 180,000 entries, each with cell data, chemistry and reference to published work for a compound. It can be searched for primitive cell data and partial chemistry. In combination with the previous remark, this shows that crystallites can be identified from single CBED patterns, and from partial chemical information obtained on them by Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.CBED patterns are analyzed as follows. Two-dimensional (xP.vP) cartesian coordinates are measured for centers of all diffraction spots on the CBED film from an arbitrary origin. To each Bragg spot P on the film corresponds a scaied reciprocal vector FS with projections on the three axes:

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