Tag Archives: coherent

3D object reconstruction from random orientations

Posted on October 4, 2008 by O

The featured item this time is “Structure from Fleeting Illumination of Faint Spinning Objects in Flight with Application to Single Molecules” by Russell Fung and co-authors at U Wisconsin Milwaukee. The promise of solving atomic-resolution 3D structure of biological proteins … Continue reading →

Posted in biology, coherent, ultrafast, xfel, xray | Tagged biology, coherent, imaging, LCLS, microscopy, physics, single molecule, xfel, xray | Leave a comment

Recent Coherent X-ray Literature Round-Up

Posted on September 6, 2008 by O

Electrospray approach to single-particle diffraction at XFEL facilities: M. Bogan, W. Benner, S. Boutet et al., “Single Particle X-ray Diffractive Imaging,” Nano Letters 8, 310-316 (2008) A study of SiN etched “logo” pattern x-ray induced destruction, similar to Chapman’s Nature … Continue reading →

Posted in coherent, xray | Tagged coherent, diffraction, microscopy, xray | 2 Comments

sub-picosecond movies of nucleation dynamics

Posted on April 8, 2008 by O

A shortlived SPPS facility is still producing papers – this week it’s the PRL paper by Aaron Lindenberg and some 28 co-authors ” X-Ray Diffuse Scattering Measurements of Nucleation Dynamics at Femtosecond Resolution” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135502 (2008). This … Continue reading →

Posted in liquid-solid, liquids, ultrafast, xfel, xray | Tagged ablation, coherent, laser, liquid, melting, pump-probe, speckle, SPPS, xfel, xray | 1 Comment

Giant molecules or tiny crystals?

Posted on April 1, 2008 by O

Nature Materials has a News and Views article by Ian Robinson titled “Coherent diffraction: Giant molecules or tiny crystals?”, which reviews recent coherent electron diffraction results by Huang et al. featured here earlier. One of the interesting points made in … Continue reading →

Posted in coherent, electron microscopy, liquid-solid, liquids | Tagged coherent, diffraction, electron, liquid, nanoparticles, solid | Leave a comment

Near-Field X-ray Speckle

Posted on January 21, 2008 by O

There is a brand new paper that appeared today in Nature Physics by Cerbino and co-workers that describes a new x-ray coherent technique based on observations of Near-Field Speckle pattern. Typically x-ray speckles (or visible light speckles) are observed in … Continue reading →

Posted in coherent, colloids, xray | Tagged coherent, coherent x-ray scattering, Nature Physics, Near Field, NFS, speckle, x-ray imaging, x-ray speckle | 3 Comments