About the Diffraction category

Education Diffraction
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Resources for teaching diffraction at all levels

X-ray (and electron and neutron) diffraction is a fundamental technology for understanding the world an at atomic scale. For many students, the theory can be difficult to learn. Solving a structure involves concepts from

  • Group theory,
  • Mathematical optimization,
  • Bayesian statistics,
  • Linear algebra,
  • Scattering physics,

and more! It’s easy to see how it can take a while to get up to speed. One of our goals as a community is to curate and develop resources for teaching diffraction.

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I recall learning about a neat little tool in my BioXFEL days called XRayView that helped make more concrete the theory behind Ewald spheres and reciprocal space and how it relates to reflections on a detector. According to the website you can obtain an academic license for free.