This experiment was replicated by Stern and Estermann using helium and lithium fluoride.
This experiment was replicated by Stern and Estermann using helium and lithium fluoride. It was also verified by a contemporaneous experiment that passed a collimated beam of particles through a thin gold foil. Unlike the Thomson-Reid experiment, this experiment used thermionic emission from a tungsten filament as a source and a Faraday cup on a rotating arm as a detector. This experiment benefited from an accident that caused the sample surface to oxidize and (*) recrystallize. The experimenters expected to observe specular reflection due to the sample's rough surface, but instead they observed a strong signal at 50 degrees and 54 electronvolts. In this experiment, scientists fired electrons at a block of nickel and measured the resulting diffraction pattern. For 10 points, name this experiment which confirmed the de Broglie hypothesis by demonstrating that electrons have wave-like properties.
This experiment was replicated by Stern and Estermann using helium and lithium fluoride.
Davisson-Germer experiment