Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 1-9  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511041884 ]

Assessing noise sources at synchrotron infrared ports

P. Lerch, P. Dumas, T. Schilcher, A. Nadji, A. Luedeke, N. Hubert, L. Cassinari, M. Boege, J.-C. Denard, L. Stingelin, L. Nadolski, T. Garvey, S. Albert, Ch. Gough, M. Quack, J. Wambach, M. Dehler and J.-M. Filhol

Synopsis: Low-frequency noise present in the electron and photon beams of two comparable storage rings, SOLEIL and SLS, are carefully compared in the context of IR spectroscopy using the Fourier transform technique.

Online 25 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 10-18  [ doi:10.1107/S090904951104249X ]

Status of the hard X-ray microprobe beamline ID22 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

G. Martínez-Criado, R. Tucoulou, P. Cloetens, P. Bleuet, S. Bohic, J. Cauzid, I. Kieffer, E. Kosior, S. Labouré, S. Petitgirard, A. Rack, J. A. Sans, J. Segura-Ruiz, H. Suhonen, J. Susini and J. Villanova

Synopsis: Present beamline characteristics, recent technical developments and a few recent scientific examples of the hard X-ray microprobe ID22 of the ESRF are described.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 19-29  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511049004 ]

Challenges of sulfur SAD phasing as a routine method in macromolecular crystallography

J. Doutch, M. A. Hough, S. S. Hasnain and R. W. Strange

Synopsis: A snapshot of current beamline and software capabilities for automated methods in S-SAD is presented.

Online 29 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 30-38  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511047236 ]

The high-resolution diffraction beamline P08 at PETRA III

O. H. Seeck, C. Deiter, K. Pflaum, F. Bertam, A. Beerlink, H. Franz, J. Horbach, H. Schulte-Schrepping, B. M. Murphy, M. Greve and O. Magnussen

Synopsis: The high-resolution diffraction beamline P08 at the third-generation synchrotron radiation source PETRA III has become operational. It offers a six-circle and a liquid diffractometer for investigating the structure of condensed matter.

Online 30 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 39-47  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511039124 ]

A furnace and environmental cell for the in situ investigation of molten salt electrolysis using high-energy X-ray diffraction

M. J. Styles, M. R. Rowles, I. C. Madsen, K. McGregor, A. J. Urban, G. A. Snook, N. V. Y. Scarlett and D. P. Riley

Synopsis: This paper describes the design and construction of a new molten salt cell and furnace, which together allow individual cell components such as anodes and cathodes to be studied in situ using synchrotron-based energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction. The performance of this equipment is demonstrated by an in situ study of a model inert anode within an operational Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge titanium electrowinning cell, using the JEEP beamline at the Diamond Light Source.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 48-53  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511047066 ]

A scanning Kelvin probe for synchrotron investigations: the in situ detection of radiation-induced potential changes

B. Salgin, D. Vogel, D. Pontoni, H. Schröder, B. Schönberger, M. Stratmann, H. Reichert and M. Rohwerder

Synopsis: A Kelvin probe set-up has been integrated at a synchrotron beamline. The in situ combination of Kelvin probe and X-ray techniques revealed surface/interface charging at the irradiated zone.

Online 25 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 54-59  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511042518 ]

Automatic XAFS measurement system developed at BL14B2 in SPring-8

H. Oji, Y. Taniguchi, S. Hirayama, H. Ofuchi, M. Takagaki and T. Honma

Synopsis: A novel automatic measurement system has been developed, in which the XAFS measurement of up to 80 samples in transmission and fluorescence modes can be carried out.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 60-65  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511047042 ]

Increase of lifespan for glioma-bearing rats by using minibeam radiation therapy

Y. Prezado, S. Sarun, S. Gil, P. Deman, A. Bouchet and G. Le Duc

Synopsis: A new radiotherapy technique, minibeam radiation therapy, combining submillimetric field sizes and a spatial fractionation of the dose is under development at the biomedical beamline of the ESRF. Here the therapeutic effectiveness of single-fraction minibeam radiation therapy on 9L gliosarcoma-bearing rats is assessed.

Online 25 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 66-73  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511040532 ]

X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy in systems without long-range order: existence of an intermediate-field regime

K. Ludwig

Synopsis: In coherent scattering from a material with only short-range order, it is shown that there exists an `intermediate-field' regime in which the ensemble averages of the scattered intensity and of the structure factor are equal. In addition, the ensemble-averaged temporal correlations of the intensity and of the structure factor are equal.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 74-83  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511041240 ]

Mechanism for enhancing dispersion of Co₃O₄ nanoparticles in Co/SiO₂ Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst by adding glycol to impregnating solution: a quick-XAFS study

N. Koizumi, S. Suzuki, Y. Ibi, Y. Hayasaka, Y. Hamabe, T. Shindo and M. Yamada

Synopsis: In situ Co K-edge quick-XAFS coupled with temperature-programmed oxidation has revealed the importance of the Co oxide-polymer interaction during calcination in enhancing Co dispersion of the glycol modified Co/SiO₂ Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 84-92  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511045778 ]

Focusing femtosecond X-ray free-electron laser pulses by refractive lenses

V. G. Kohn

Synopsis: It is shown that a refractive lens can focus the initial X-ray free-electron laser pulses of duration 0.3 fs to the same size as for a monochromatic beam. A general semi-analytical method of calculating the propagation of XFEL pulses through a system of refractive lenses is developed.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 93-100  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511040374 ]

A flow-through reaction cell for in situ X-ray diffraction and absorption studies of heterogeneous powder-liquid reactions and phase transformations

P. Ferrer, I. da Silva, J. Rubio-Zuazo, B. F. Alfonso, C. Trobajo, S. Khainakov, J. R. Garcia, S. Garcia-Granda and G. R. Castro

Synopsis: A portable powder-liquid high-corrosion-resistant reaction cell has been designed to follow in situ reactions by X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 101-105  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511047078 ]

Moiré pattern from a multiple Bragg-Laue interferometer

K. Hirano, T. Fukamachi, Y. Kanematsu, S. Jongsukswat, R. Negishi, D. Ju, K. Hirano and T. Kawamura

Synopsis: A moiré pattern is observed by dividing the incident beam into two and formed by multiple Bragg-Laue interference fringes corresponding to the two incident beams. The coherency of X-rays from a bending-magnet beamline is evaluated using the moiré pattern.

Online 25 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 106-113  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511039422 ]

X-ray-Raman-scattering-based EXAFS beyond the dipole limit

S. Huotari, T. Pylkkänen, J. A. Soininen, J. J. Kas, K. Hämäläinen and G. Monaco

Synopsis: A description of the accurate measurement and analysis of EXAFS oscillations in X-ray Raman scattering is given.

Online 25 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 114-125  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511046139 ]

Global and local hard X-ray tomography of a centimeter-size tumor vessel tree

S. Lang, M. Dominietto, P. Cattin, A. Ulmann-Schuler, T. Weitkamp and B. Müller

Synopsis: Local tomography data from a set of multiscale measurements on a tumor vessel tree were quantitatively compared with global data, and algorithms were used to match the reconstructed absorption coefficients. The study shows that the systematic differences in the absorption coefficients between the local and the global data arise not only from the truncated projections but to a greater extent from the optical components of the detector used.

Online 18 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 126-128  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511043068 ]

X-ray absorption measurements on an ultrasonic spray aerosol

R. Schlaf, B. Höpfner, J. Figueroa, E. Tridas, E. Welter, T. Köhler, I. Lauermann and C.-H. Fischer

Synopsis: The presented experiments aimed to study the feasibility of XAS measurements on the solute in a nebulized solution. The results indicate that such measurements are possible, but that high solution concentrations and/or extended sampling times are required to achieve a good signal-to-noise ratio.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 129-131  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511043263 ]

Synchrotron-based spectroscopy of X-ray channeling through hollow capillary microchannels inside glass plates

M. I. Mazuritskiy

Synopsis: Soft X-ray synchrotron radiation transmitted through microchannel plates is studied experimentally.

Online 15 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 132-135  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511038982 ]

Circular dichroism beamline B23 at the Diamond Light Source

R. Hussain, T. Jávorfi and G. Siligardi

Synopsis: A description of the B23 SRCD beamline at Diamond is presented.

Online 18 November 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 136  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511053878 ]

On the calculation of the gauge volume size for energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction. Erratum

M. R. Rowles

Synopsis: Erratum to Rowles [(2011), J. Synchrotron Rad. 18, 938-941].

Online 20 December 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 137-138  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511052770 ]

Current events

Online 20 December 2011

 

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012). 19, 139-143  [ doi:10.1107/S0909049511047480 ]

Notes for authors 2012

Online 20 December 2011