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ptychography

ptychography noun: a technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.

Noun

ptychography (uncountable)

  1. 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

Origin of ptychography

From ptycho- (compare ptychonome) + -graphy, from Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “write”).

Questions about ptychography

What does ptychography mean?
Ptychography means a technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.
What part of speech is ptychography?
Ptychography is a noun.

Words near ptychography in the dictionary

  1. ptychoderids
  2. ptychodontid
  3. ptychodontids
  4. ptychographic
  5. ptychographical
  6. ptychography
  7. ptychonome
  8. ptychonomes
  9. ptychonomous
  10. ptychopariid
  11. ptychopariids

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