X-ray Version of Davisson-Germer Experiment

Application of unitcell defined boundary conditions leads to the question on the formation of standing waves within unitcell. We design and propose X-ray version of Davisson-Germer experiment as the answer. In the proposed experiment, a tunable synchrotron beam replaces the variable de Broglie wavelength of incident electron beam. Among the two series of Davisson-Germer peaks from original experiments available in literature, first series shown in figure 1 demonstrates standing wave description and the second series shown in figure 2 demonstrates running wave description. Both running waves and standing waves cannot simultaneously exist within the unitcell and the proposed experiment alone can resolve between the two. The experiment can be conducted on a macromolecular crystal also.