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High-Energy X-Ray Scattering and Imaging

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Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers

Abstract

After a slow start with a few pioneering experiments, applications of high-energy X-rays with an energy above 40 keV have become standard at many synchrotron radiation facilities. With rapid improvements in sources, optics, and detectors, we observe today a clear trend towards higher energies in many areas, but in particular in materials science. In this overview we give a brief introduction into high-energy X-ray scattering and imaging guided by a selection of experiments in materials science.

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    https://www1.aps.anl.gov/

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    http://www.esrf.eu/

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    http://petraiii.desy.de/

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    http://www.spring8.or.jp/

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    Flux per six dimensional volume of the photon beam in phase space (source area and solid angle).

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    Emittance 4 nm and 3 pm.

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    Emittance 0.13 nm and 2 pm.

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    Emittance 2.7 nm and 27 pm.

Abbreviations

3DXRD :

Three Dimensional X-ray Diffraction

ADD :

Angular Dispersive Diffraction

APS :

Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois, USA,

is a national synchrotron-radiation light source research facility funded by the United

States Department of Energy Office of Science

CCD :

Charge Coupled Device

CMOS :

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

DCT :

Diffraction Contrast Tomography

DESY :

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron is a national research center in Germany that

operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matter.

DORIS :

Doppel-Ring-Speicher was the first storage ring at DESY. After its conversion for

synchrotron radiation source in 1992 it was called DORIS III.

EDD :

Energy Dispersive Diffraction

ESRF :

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is a joint research facility supported by 20

countries situated in Grenoble, France.

GID :

Grazing Incident Diffraction

PDF :

Pair Distribution Function

PETRA :

Positron-Elektron Tandem Ring Anlage is one of the particle accelerators

at DESY. Originally it was to study electron–positron collisions. The modification

called PETRA-II was a source of high-energy synchrotron radiation and also a

pre-accelerator for a larger ring. 2007 it was converted to high intensity source for

synchrotron radiation called PETRA-III

SAXS :

Small Angle X-ray Scattering

SNR :

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SPring-8 :

Super Photon ring–8 GeV is a synchrotron-radiation facility located in Hyōgo

Prefecture, Japan and operated by the Japan, Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute.

SRS :

Synchrotron Radiation Source at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England was the firstsecond-generation synchrotron radiation source to produce X-rays.

WAXS :

Wide Angle X-ray Scattering

XRD-CT :

X-Ray Diffraction Computed Tomography

XRR :

X-Ray Reflectivity

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  1. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF, CS 40220, F-38043, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Harald Reichert

  2. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF, CS 40220, F-38043, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Veijo Honkimäki

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  2. Zentrum für Synchrotronstrahlung, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  3. FS-CFEL-1, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

    Jochen R. Schneider

  4. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Linac Coherent Light Source, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California, USA

    Jerome B. Hastings

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Reichert, H., Honkimäki, V. (2015). High-Energy X-Ray Scattering and Imaging. In: Jaeschke, E., Khan, S., Schneider, J., Hastings, J. (eds) Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04507-8_33-1

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