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All reflection, whether of particle, electromagnetic or acoustic waves, is the result of the constructive interference of many scattered waves originating from scatterers in a planar stratified medium, as we saw in Sect. 1.5.

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Lekner, J. (2016). Neutron and X-ray Reflection. In: Theory of Reflection. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 87. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23627-8_16

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