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We report our experiences with conducting ptychography simultaneously with the X-ray fluorescence measurement using the on-the-fly mode for efficient multi-modality imaging. We demonstrate that the periodic artifact inherent to the raster scan pattern can be mitigated using a sufficiently fine scan step size to provide an overlap ratio of >70%. This allows us to obtain transmitted phase contrast images with enhanced spatial resolution from ptychography while maintaining the fluorescence imaging with continuous-motion scans on pixelated grids. This capability will greatly improve the competence and throughput of scanning probe X-ray microscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We used x-ray nanotomography to characterize the three-dimensional (3D) morphology and topology of dealloyed nanoporous gold after coarsening. The interface shape distribution obtained from the nanotomography measurement shows that the coarsening does not proceed by bulk diffusion. The surface normal distribution shows that the morphology of the nanoporous gold is anisotropic. The topology of nanoporous gold is similar to that of other bicontinuous structures created by phase separation, despite the radically different method used to produce the structures. This work opens the door to time-resolved, in situ studies of coarsening of nanoporous gold in 3D. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The synthesis and magnetic properties of (In1-xFex)2O3-σ bulk ceramics with Cu co-doping are reported. Magnetic Fe ions are found to have high thermodynamic solubility (up to 20%) in the In2O3 host compound. The lattice constant decreases almost linearly as Fe doping concentration increases indicating the incorporation of Fe ions into the host lattice. The samples with high Fe concentration annealed under Ar reduced atmosphere were found to be ferromagnetic, and the Curie temperature is around 750 K. The extensive structural and magnetic studies rule out the possibility that the observed magnetism is derived from magnetic impurity phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]