Using spherically bent crystals for obtaining high-resolution, large-field, monochromatic X-ray backlighting imaging for wide range of Bragg angles

Author(s):  
T.A. Pikuz ◽  
A.Ya. Faenov ◽  
M. Fraenkel ◽  
A. Zigler ◽  
F. Flora ◽  
...  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.A. PIKUZ ◽  
A. YA. FAENOV ◽  
M. FRAENKEL ◽  
A. ZIGLER ◽  
F. FLORA ◽  
...  

The shadow monochromatic backlighting (SMB) scheme, a modification of the well-known soft X-ray monochromatic backlighting scheme, is proposed. It is based on a spherical crystal as the dispersive element and extends the traditional scheme by allowing one to work with a wide range of Bragg angles and thus in a wide spectral range. The advantages of the new scheme are demonstrated experimentally and supported numerically by ray-tracing simulations. In the experiments, the X-ray backlighter source is a laser-produced plasma, created by the interaction of an ultrashort pulse, Ti:Sapphire laser (120 fs, 3–5 mJ, 1016 W/cm2 on target) or a short wavelength XeCl laser (10 ns, 1–2 J, 1013 W/cm2 on target) with various solid targets (Dy, Ni + Cr, BaF2). In both experiments, the X-ray sources are well localized spatially (∼20 μm) and are spectrally tunable in a relatively wide wavelength range (λ = 8–15 Å). High quality monochromatic (δλ/λ ∼ 10−5–10−3) images with high spatial resolution (up to ∼4 μm) over a large field of view (a few square millimeters) were obtained. Utilization of spherically bent crystals to obtain high-resolution, large field, monochromatic images in a wide range of Bragg angles (35° < Θ < 90°) is demonstrated for the first time.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Li ◽  
J. Gelb ◽  
Y. Yang ◽  
Y. Guan ◽  
W. Wu ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 762-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari-Pekka Honkanen ◽  
Roberto Verbeni ◽  
Laura Simonelli ◽  
Marco Moretti Sala ◽  
Ali Al-Zein ◽  
...  

Wavelength-dispersive high-resolution X-ray spectrometers often employ elastically bent crystals for the wavelength analysis. In a preceding paper [Honkanenet al.(2014).J. Synchrotron Rad.21, 104–110] a theory for quantifying the internal stress of a macroscopically large spherically curved analyser crystal was presented. Here the theory is applied to compensate for the corresponding decrease of the energy resolution. The technique is demonstrated with a Johann-type spectrometer using a spherically bent Si(660) analyser in near-backscattering geometry, where an improvement in the energy resolution from 1.0 eV down to 0.5 eV at 9.7 keV incident photon energy was observed.


1997 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 3412-3420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sauneuf ◽  
Jean-Michel Dalmasso ◽  
Thierry Jalinaud ◽  
Jean-Pierre Le Breton ◽  
Daniel Schirmann ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 614-617
Author(s):  
Rui Hong Li ◽  
Yue Ping Han

The present paper reviews the X-ray grating imaging systems at home and abroad from the aspects of technological characterizations and the newest researching focus. First, not only the imaging principles and the frameworks of the typical X-ray grating imaging system based on Talbot-Lau interferometry method, but also the algorithms of retrieving the signals of attenuation, refraction and small-angle scattering are introduced. Second, the system optimizing methods are discussed, which involves mainly the relaxing the requirement of high positioning resolution and strict circumstances for gratings and designing large field of view with high resolution. Third, two and four-dimensional grating-based X-ray imaging techniques are introduced.


2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis King ◽  
Abdelmalek Bouazza ◽  
Anton Maksimenko ◽  
Will P. Gates ◽  
Stephen Dubsky

The measurement of displacement fields by nondestructive imaging techniques opens up the potential to study the pre-failure mechanisms of a wide range of geotechnical problems within physical models. With the advancement of imaging technologies, it has become possible to achieve high-resolution three-dimensional computed tomography volumes of relatively large samples, which may have previously resulted in excessively long scan times or significant imaging artefacts. Imaging of small-scale model piled embankments (142 mm diameter) comprising sand was undertaken using the imaging and medical beamline at the Australian Synchrotron. The monochromatic X-ray beam produced high-resolution reconstructed volumes with a fine texture due to the size and mineralogy of the sand grains as well as the phase contrast enhancement achieved by the monochromatic X-ray beam. The reconstructed volumes were well suited to the application of digital volume correlation, which utilizes cross-correlation techniques to estimate three-dimensional full-field displacement vectors. The output provides insight into the strain localizations that develop within piled embankments and an example of how advanced imaging techniques can be utilized to study the kinematics of physical models.


2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 041111 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Thuering ◽  
P. Modregger ◽  
T. Grund ◽  
J. Kenntner ◽  
C. David ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (H15) ◽  
pp. 273-273
Author(s):  
Ginevra Trinchieri

XMM-Newton is well suited to the study of the X-ray properties of early-type galaxies: the wide energy band allows a characterization of the different components of the X-ray emission in galaxies, separating the gas from the compact source component through their spectral characteristics, and identifying low-luminosity absorbed AGNs; the large field of view allows a proper understanding of the large scale emission, and the separation between the galaxy and the surrounding group. Nonetheless, in spite of the much improved understanding of the X-ray characteristics of this class of sources, much of the original questions on the global X-ray properties of early-type galaxies remain. One in particular: how can we predict how much gas is there in any given galaxy? We have learned that the individual sources are tightly linked to the stellar component, both field stars and relative frequency of globular clusters. We have also learned that the central group galaxies, brighter and more extended, might represent a specific class of early-type galaxies, rather than the population as a whole. Yet we have not learned how to predict, from the stellar properties, how much hot gas a galaxy will have. Even a well selected class of sources, namely early type galaxies in isolation, where we can exclude the influence of the environment, appear to retain different amounts of the hot ISM produced by the stellar population, and display a wide range of Lx for their gaseous component for a relative narrow range of Lb, or mass [measured through LK], as shown by Fig. 1.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana A. Pikuz ◽  
Anatoly Y. Faenov ◽  
Moshe Fraenkel ◽  
Arie Zigler ◽  
Francesco Flora ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Sumio Iijima

Wüstite (Fe1-x0) has recieved considerable attention because of a wide range of variation in x. The deviation from stoichiometry is known to be due to vacancies on cation sites. Koch and Cohen, having studied this material in detail using an X-ray diffraction method, concluded that the defects present in Fe1-x0 are clusters of 13 octahedral vacancies and 4 tetrahedral ions. These clusters are arranged periodically but the repeat distance in the [100] direction is not an integral number of structures of the basic NaCl-type. The observed spacing of superstructure peaks may correspond to the average repeat distance.


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