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Bethe's method

Bethe's method

A method for calculating the intensities of transmitted and diffracted waves at the bottom plane of a crystalline specimen when the incident electron beam interacts with the specimen. In the "Bethe's method," the energy of the electron wave is given, and the states of the electron waves (wave number vectors) allowed in the crystal are obtained by the Schroedinger equation, and finally the amplitudes of transmitted and diffracted waves at the exit plane are obtained by connecting these waves to the incident electron wave using the boundary condition. In this method, multiple scattering (dynamical diffraction) is taken into account. Since the equation to obtain the wave vectors takes the form of a matrix, the method is termed the matrix method or the eigenvalue method.

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