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thermal diffuse scattering, TDS

thermal diffuse scattering

"Thermal diffuse scattering" is inelastic scattering where the incident electrons on the specimen excite thermal vibrations (lattice vibrations) of atoms in the specimen and scattered in a diffuse manner. Since this scattering loses only a small energy (0.1 eV or less), this is often called quasi-elastic scattering.

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