ptychography

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

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ptychography (uncountable)

  1. (physics) A technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.
    • 2015, O.Yu. Gorobtsov, I.A. Vartanyants, “Phase of the transmitted wave in the dynamical theory and quasi-kinematical approximation”, in arXiv[1]:
      It was recently suggested that the transmitted phase can be directly measured in ptychography experiments performed on nanocrystal samples.

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