Patterson function
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Patterson function
[′pad·ər·sən ‚fəŋk·shən] (solid-state physics)
A function of three spatial coordinates, constructed in the Patterson-Harker method, which has peaks at all vectors between two atoms in a crystal, the heights of the peaks being approximately proportional to the product of the atomic numbers of the corresponding atoms.
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Basic topics include diffraction from three-dimensional crystals, phase determination by isomorphous replacement and the
Patterson function.
Indexing allows
Patterson functions to be directly obtainable in three or six dimensions from powder data.
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