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ISSN: 1600-5775

March 2000 issue

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Cover illustration: Compton Award ceremony, see Bilderback, Freund, Knapp & Mills, pages 53-60.

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lead articles


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 53-60
doi: 10.1107/S0909049500000650
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This Compton Award ceremony speech at the Advanced Photon Source presents an overview of how cryogenically cooled monochromator optics have been developed to provide brilliant beams from hard X-ray undulators.

research papers


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 61-68
doi: 10.1107/S090904959901568X
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A vacuum-compatible monochromatic beam-position monitor using PIN photodiodes is described, based on fluorescence generated by a thin metal foil placed in the full X-ray beam. The true beam centre-of-mass is measured with a position sensitivity of 1–2 µm.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 69-77
doi: 10.1107/S090904959901691X
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Two bent-crystal monochromators for 100 keV and 300 keV X-rays have been developed at the wiggler beamline BL08W of SPring-8.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 78-80
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599016635
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It is shown that a properly designed transversal groove machined into the surface of a single-crystal monochromator may concentrate the diffracted radiation meridionally. This arrangement should provide two-dimensional focusing of a diffracted synchrotron radiation beam.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 81-88
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599015113
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The non-linear optical effect of parametric down conversion has been demonstrated in the X-ray regime by combination of energy analysis and time correlation of the pairs of photons produced.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 89-94
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599016817
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The design and performance of the high-brilliance XAFS facility at BL10XU of SPring-8, aimed at rapid and sensitive measurement of X-ray absorption fine structure, is reported.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 95-102
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599015071
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Thermal effects in extended X-ray absorption fine structure and X-ray photoelectron diffraction due to atomic vibration in cubic and quartic potentials are studied by use of Feynman's path-integral approach.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 103-109
doi: 10.1107/S0909049500000625
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A conical slit for three-dimensional XRD mapping has been manufactured by wire-electrodischarge machining. An algorithm for alignment of the slit is established, and the potential of the technique is illustrated with an example of grain mapping in a 4.5 mm-thick Cu sample.

short communications


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 110-112
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599015940
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A specimen chamber is described for soft X-ray spectromicroscopy of hydrated specimens and solutions. Applications include imaging and carbon edge spectroscopy of hydrated clay/polymer suspensions.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2000). 7, 113
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