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It was in 1912, at the University of Munich, that Friedrich and Knipping, following a suggestion from Max von Laue, produced the first X-ray diffraction pattern by irradiating a single crystal of ZnS with a beam of X-rays and photographing the resulting diffracted beams on a photographic plate placed behind the crystal [1, 2]. Analysis of these ‘Laue’ pictures proved difficult, however, and Bragg [3, 4], in 1913, introduced a simpler relationship which, as the ‘Bragg equation’, lies at the basis of most of our current X-ray diffraction studies.

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