Trough or Peak Analysis? Pick One!

When performing a formal phasing analysis we can either assume troughs are synchronised or peaks, but generally not both. Let's see why in this article.

A trough AND peak phasing analysis of gold. Both are compelling but only one should be used and we must look at subtle clues to decide. It is important to know that in this analysis each phasing is distinct and seperate - they are not related to each other at all - as we will learn below.

Whilst it is true the majority of phasing analysis performed on Si…