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Making sense of vacancy correlations with single-crystal diffuse scattering data

Local ordering of atoms within a crystalline structure is increasingly recognized as essential to understanding the properties of a variety of interesting materials. This is shown by the success of pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of scattering data from powder samples to investigate departures from perfectly crystalline order (Billinge & Kanatzidis, 2004; Egami & Billinge, 2012). Diffuse scattering from single crystals can also be a powerful probe of local order, potentially providing key information that would be difficult to obtain from PDF methods; however, difficulties in both measurement and interpretation of data have too often restricted their use by a larger community. In this issue of IUCrJ, Rothet al.(2020) demonstrate how simple concepts can be applied to better understand single-crystal diffuse scattering from half-Heusler systems.

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