Wave property of electrons implies that they will show diffraction effects. Davisson and Germer demonstrated this by diffracting electrons from crystals. The law governing the diffraction from a crystal is obtained by requiring that electron waves reflected from the planes of atoms in a crystal interfere constructively (see in the figure).
In an experiment, electrons are made to pass through a narrow slit of width’ comparable to their de Broglie wavelength. They are detected on a screen at a distance ‘D’ from the slit (see figure).
Which of the following graph can be expected to represent the number of electrons ‘N’ detected as a function of the detector position ‘y’(y = 0 corresponds to the middle of the slit)?
D.

Diffraction pattern will be wider than the slit