1. Multiple application X-ray imaging chamber for single-shot diffraction experiments with femtosecond X-ray laser pulses
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Daewoong Nam, Takaki Hatsui, Shun Ono, Hiroki Shimada, Changyong Song, Tadashi Togashi, Makina Yabashi, Kensuke Tono, Sang Soo Kim, Tomio Ebisu, So Iwata, Jaehyun Park, Yasumasa Joti, Sunam Kim, Kanade Ogawa, Takashi Kameshima, Takahiro Sato, Marcus Gallagher-Jones, and Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Diffraction ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Scattering ,X-ray ,Laser ,Atomic units ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,law.invention ,X-ray laser ,SACLA ,Optics ,law ,Femtosecond ,business - Abstract
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide intense (∼1012 photons per pulse) coherent X-rays with ultra-short (∼10−14 s) pulse lengths. X-rays of such an unprecedented nature have introduced new means of atomic scale structural investigations, and discoveries are still ongoing. Effective use of XFELs would be further accelerated on a highly adaptable platform where most of the new experiments can be realized. Introduced here is the multiple-application X-ray imaging chamber (MAXIC), which is able to carry out various single-pulse diffraction experiments including single-shot imaging, nanocrystallographic data acquisition and ultra-fast pump–probe scattering for specimens in solid, liquid and gas phases. The MAXIC established at the SPring-8 ångström compact free-electron laser (SACLA) has demonstrated successful applications in the aforementioned experiments, but is not limited to them. Also introduced are recent experiments on single-shot diffraction imaging of Au nanoparticles and serial crystallographic data collection of lysozyme crystals at SACLA.
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- 2014
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