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Debye-Waller factor
The Debye-Waller factor, also known as the B factor or the temperature factor describes the decrease in scattering intensity (either from x-ray or neutron scattering) due to the thermal motion of the atoms, or due to crystal disorder. The thermal motion, or disorder, in some sense reduces the validity of the Laue diffraction condition which is based on fixed atoms.
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