Yalcin S.Gurler O.Gultekin A.Gundogdu O.2023-04-122023-04-122006-07-3103759601https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12597/6287In this Letter, an expression is presented to calculate elastic scattering cross sections for incident electrons as a function of both energy and atomic number in the energy range between 1 keV and 1 MeV for materials with effective atomic number between 3 and 18. The expression we present has a rather simple analytical form which gives accurate results that are in very good agreement with the results calculated by a relativistic partial-wave expansion method. Hence, this equation can be employed accurately and efficiently in a continuous manner, without the need to go through rather large look-up tables, thus making the whole process quick, efficient and removing possible computational errors that may arise from the efforts of interpolation. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.falseArticle10.1016/j.physleta.2006.04.0372-s2.0-33745239582