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ISSN: 1600-5775

March 2014 issue

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Cover illustration: Three-dimensional shaded surface plot for trigonal tellurium in a study of the local structure of amorphous tellurium, which shows the correlation between the coordination number and the Debye-Waller factor in EXAFS analysis (see Ikemoto and Miyanaga, pages 409-412). The colour and surface height are proportional to the R-factor.

facility information


research papers


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 289-299
doi: 10.1107/S1600577514000277
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Coherence properties of a radially symmetric source are rigorously computed by means of the Wigner distribution function.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 300-314
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513032402
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Quantitative results from a systematic study on different low-pressure RF plasma cleaning processes of carbon contaminations are presented.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 315-324
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513033158
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The performance of a cryogenically cooled double-crystal silicon monochromator was studied under high-heat-load conditions with total absorbed powers and power densities ranging from 8 to 780 W and from 8 to 240 W mm−2, respectively. When the temperature of the first crystal is maintained close to the temperature of zero thermal expansion of silicon, the monochromator shows nearly ideal performance with a thermal slope error of 0.6 µrad.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 325-332
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513030877
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An illustration of the energy-compensation principle of grating dispersion applied to a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering measurement.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 333-339
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034759
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Position and size measurements of a micro-focused X-ray beam, using an X-ray beam imaging device based on a lensless camera that collects radiation scattered from a thin foil placed in the path of the beam at an oblique angle, are reported.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 340-351
doi: 10.1107/S160057751400006X

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 352-365
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034796
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The design and performance of a new soft X-ray beamline BL07LSU at SPring-8 are described. The combination of a novel segmented cross undulator and beamline monochromator has achieved high energy resolution (EE > 10000) and high photon flux [>1012 photons s−1 (0.01% bandwidth)−1] in the photon energy range 250–2000 eV with fully controllable polarization.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 366-375
doi: 10.1107/S1600577514000514
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Simulations reveal that a cryogenic Si monochromator is suitable for high power density and high fractional coherence energy-recovery linac beamlines with small thermal deformation and small wavefront distortion.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 376-379
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513031640
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A compact transmission X-ray microscope with superior thermal and mechanical stability is described.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 380-385
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513031949
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A new concept for shortening hard X-ray pulses emitted from a third-generation synchrotron source down to few picoseconds is presented. The device, called the PicoSwitch, exploits the dynamics of coherent acoustic phonons in a photo-excited thin film.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 386-394
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034358
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In situ pulsed laser deposition synchrotron characterization for the detection of the domain formation during the growth of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 on MgO is presented.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 395-400
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513031299
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ReflEXAFS study of surface and buried interfaces in the reaction between NiO and Al2O3 using the CARD code.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 401-408
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034747
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Dual loop active feedback stabilization of the position and monochromatic flux of the beam at the output of a double-crystal monochromator is described. The efficacy of the proposed stabilization system is demonstrated in EXAFS spectroscopy measurements on inhomogeneous diluted Ti-containing samples.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 409-412
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513032748
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The local structure of amorphous tellurium was investigated by EXAFS. The primary chain structure remains intact, whereas the secondary structure is disrupted. The decrease in the inter-chain interaction strengthens the intra-chain interaction.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 413-423
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513024089
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The X-ray mass attenuation coefficients of silver were measured in the energy range 5–20 keV with an accuracy of 0.01–0.2% on a relative scale down to 5.3 keV, and of 0.09–1.22% on an absolute scale to 5.0 keV, confirming that with careful choice of foil thickness and careful correction for systematics the X-ray attenuation of high-Z elements can be measured with high accuracy even at low X-ray energies.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 424-429
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034760
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Key parameters of two-phase flows, such as void fraction and microscale bubble size, shape and velocity, were simultaneously measured using time-resolved X-ray imaging.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 430-445
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034681
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The feasibility of propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging of small animal lungs has been investigated at the Imaging and Medical beamline (IMBL) of the Australian Synchrotron, including computed tomography and X-ray velocimetry. Excellent contrast of the lung phantoms indicates that live animal lung imaging can readily be achieved at the IMBL.

short communications


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 446-448
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034644
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The evaluation of a focusing property of a multilayer zone plate is reported. The point spread function of the focusing beam is obtained using conventional knife-edge scanning measurements and a tomographic reconstruction.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 449-451
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513034802
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Taking into account background correction and using Fourier analysis, a numerical method of reconstructed object image correction using a dynamical diffraction Fraunhofer hologram is discussed.

beamlines


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 452-455
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513032931
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A new bending-magnet beamline with a 2.5 m normal-incidence monochromator mainly dedicated to photoluminescence measurements of solids has been constructed at the UVSOR-III.

computer programs


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 456-461
doi: 10.1107/S160057751400023X
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An application of the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm for image stack alignment in full-field X-ray absorption spectroscopy is described and a Python-OpenCL implementation of this algorithm is presented.

laboratory notes


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 462-463
doi: 10.1107/S1600577513031937
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A versatile high-pressure gas rig with controlled flow for on-line catalysis experiments has been developed.

current events


J. Synchrotron Rad. (2014). 21, 464-465
doi: 10.1107/S160057751400321X
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