Structure factors at room temperature are computed for LiF, NaF, NaCl and KCl by means of theoretical ionic form factors and theoretical Debye-Waller factors. The values obtained are compared with the best available experimental data. For LiF, KCl and NaF - for which good experimental data are available - there is generally very good agreement, with only a few sizeable discrepancies for NaF that can be attributed to deficiencies of the experimental data. It is concluded that there is no apparent need to question the validity of the Debye-Waller theory as recently proposed in the literature.
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Böbel et al. (1989) studied this question.