Affiliation:
1. A.V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics”, Russian Academy of Sciences, 59, Leninsky prospect, 119333 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
In the case of the point defect in a crystal, the inverse Radon’s problem in X-ray diffraction microtomography has been solved. As is known, the crystal-lattice defect displacement field function f(r) = h·u(r) determines phases − (±h)-structure factors incorporated into the Takagi–Taupin equations and provides the 2D image patterns by diffracted and transmitted waves propagating through a crystal (h is the diffraction vector and u(r) is the displacement field crystal-lattice-defects vector). Beyond the semi-kinematical approach for obtaining the analytical problem solution, the difference-equations-scheme of the Takagi–Taupin equations that, in turn, yield numerically controlled-accuracy problem solutions has been first applied and tested. Addressing the inverse Radon’s problem solution, the χ2-target function optimization method using the Nelder–Mead algorithm has been employed and tested in an example of recovering the Coulomb-type point defect structure in a crystal Si(111). As has been shown in the cases of the 2D noise-free fractional and integrated image patterns, based on the Takagi–Taupin solutions in the semi-kinematical and difference-scheme approaches, both procedures provide the χ2-target function global minimum, even if the starting-values of the point-defect vector P1 is chosen rather far away from the reference up to 40% in relative units. In the cases of the 2D Poisson-noise image patterns with noise levels up to 5%, the figures-of-merit values of the optimization procedures by the Nelder–Mead algorithm turn out to be high enough; the lucky trials number is 85%; and in contrast, for the statistically denoised 2D image patterns, they reach 0.1%.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the state assignment FSRC «Crystallography and Photonics» RAS
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering
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