The application of techniques designed to capitalize on the high source brightness at current generation storage ring facilities continues to produce unique insights into the structure and dynamics of materials. At NSLS-II, we are nearing the completion of a new beamline designed to provide tunable x-ray illumination—in both size and coherence fraction—sample environments, and experimental...
Synchrotron x-ray microscopy methods are valuable tools for quantitative imaging of micronutrients and metals in a wide range of biological systems and at multiple length scales [1,2]. The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is uniquely positioned to build a dedicated x-ray facility for the study of biological systems, especially plants, leveraging existing infrastructure and...
Hard X-ray microscopy is very promising for nondestructive and high-spatial-resolution observation of the internal structure of a sample. However, the spatial resolution of microscopes remains unsatisfactory owing to the fabrication error in the objective lens. This problem is becoming more serious, especially as the spatial resolution decreases.
To overcome the problem and achieve...
With LAMINO-II and UFO-II, two new experimental stations have recently become available at the superconducting wiggler beamline IMAGE at the KIT Light Source, dedicated for 2D/3D/4D full-field hard X-ray imaging for materials and life sciences. UFO-II focusses on serial micro-tomography, namely systematic high-throughput 3D imaging of large sample series with minimum user interaction....
Over the past two decades, exceptional progress has been made providing coherent x-ray beams at both high-brightness synchrotron sources and x-ray free electron lasers (XFEL). The availability of these coherent x-rays has led to a surge in instruments that exploit x-ray coherence for either x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) or coherent diffraction imaging (CDI). A key to these...
Chromatic aberration has been a long-standing challenge for lens-based X-ray microscopy, significantly limiting image resolution or reducing the usable portion of the photon flux since the field's inception in the 1970s. However, recent advancements have led to the development of the first achromatic and apochromatic lenses for X-rays, both exhibiting a constant focal length over wide photon...
