ptychography
nounEtymology From ptycho- (compare ptychonome) + -graphy, from Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “write”).
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.
- It was recently suggested that the transmitted phase can be directly measured in ptychography experiments performed on nanocrystal samples.2015, O.Yu. Gorobtsov, I.A. Vartanyants, “Phase of the transmitted wave in the dynamical theory and quasi-kinematical approximation”, in arXiv:
- Related terms
- ptychographic, ptychographical