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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Analytical Chemistry
Physical Chemistry

Background:

Radial distribution functions (RDF) are crucial for understanding atomic arrangements in materials.
Accurate determination of RDF from diffraction data, especially electron diffraction, is challenging due to data quality and uncertainty propagation.
Existing methods often struggle to fully account for experimental uncertainties in the final RDF.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a new, robust method for deriving radial distribution functions (RDF) from electron diffraction data.
To enable the explicit transfer of experimental uncertainties from reduced molecular scattering functions to the resulting RDF.
To provide a reliable approach applicable to various diffraction techniques and sample types.

Main Methods:

A regularized weighted sine least-squares spectral analysis was employed.
The method focuses on accurate uncertainty propagation from experimental data to the RDF.
Numerical demonstrations were performed to validate the approach.

Main Results:

The proposed method successfully obtains RDF from electron diffraction data.
Experimental uncertainties are explicitly transferred to the RDF, providing a measure of reliability.
The study discusses uncertainties and correlations within the derived RDFs.

Conclusions:

The developed approach offers a significant improvement in RDF analysis from diffraction data.
It provides a criterion for selecting regularization parameters, enhancing reproducibility.
The method's applicability extends to X-ray and neutron diffraction of liquid samples.