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The diffraction of the electromagnetic waves or the de Broglie waves of electrons and neutrons on a liquid, liquid crystalline or crystalline structures results in a characteristic pattern from that one can restore a distribution of density in space or density function ρ(r) [1,2].
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Blinov, L.M. (2011). Structure Analysis and X-Ray Diffraction. In: Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals., vol 123. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8829-1_5
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