Diffraction on a crystalline slab formed by point-like scattering centres is treated as a multiple scattering problem based on the Ewald equations. Using general results expressed in a lucid matrix form, the two-beam solution for both coplanar and non-coplanar cases valid near and far from Bragg peaks is found and a detailed comparison of the final formulae obtained with those following from Laue's theory is performed.

Institute of Physical Engineering Brno University of Technology 616 69 Brno Technická 2 Czech Republic

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