Nature

Simple Diffraction Experiment

THE apparatus for this experiment consists of a slit and a grating. A slit may be made by ruling a line on a piece of smoked glass. The grating is made by slightly greasing the thumb and forefinger ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Held an Extreme Atomic Experiment—and Challenged the Notions of What’s Possible

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a ...
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Century-Old Challenge Of “Atomic Diffraction” Finally Solved Thanks To Graphene

For thousands of years, thinkers argued about whether light is made of particles or waves. At the beginning of the 20th ...
IEEE

A Parametric Diffraction Pattern based Game Module Design for the Experiment of Optical Analogy of Reflected Electron Diffraction from One-Dimensional Structures

Abstract: In this paper, an example game module design added to an existing STEM experiment kit of reflected optical diffraction is presented for the illustration of wave/particle properties. Showing ...