Indexing

In crystallography, indexing is the process of assigning indices to experimentally-observed peaks. This amounts to determining the crystalline unit cell (i.e. the material's lattice symmetry).

References

• M. Nespolo Direction indices for crystal lattices J. Appl. Cryst. 2017. doi: 10.1107/S1600576717010548
• J. Simbrunner, S. Hofer, B. Schrode, Y. Garmshausen, S. Hecht, R. Resel and I. Salzmann Indexing grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction patterns of thin films: lattices of higher symmetry J. Appl. Cryst. 2019, 52, 428-439. doi: 10.1107/S1600576719003029

See Also

• Unit Cell
• Lattice