forthcoming articles

This study optimizes a Diamond Light Source photon absorber using additive manufactured (AM; 3D printing) conformal cooling channels in copper, achieving a maximum temperature drop of 11%, pressure drop reduction of 82% and examination of the AM print quality and its compliance with synchrotron and particle accelerator hardware applications using custom benchmark artefacts. These improvements can reduce thermal fatigue failure, component size, vibrations and energy consumption of absorbers, boosting overall facility efficiency, reliability and beam stability.

The Extended Image Restoration (ExImRes) method has been developed to enhance the spatial resolution of Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging by combining multiple lower-resolution images from the same dataset. Applied to chiral gold and platinum nanoparticles as examples, ExImRes overcomes traditional resolution limits to enable precise calculations of strain field energy and atomic deformation correlation lengths, revealing detailed lattice-scale information previously inaccessible.

We provide a historical introduction, our thoughts on the current trends including based on papers in this special issue of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Stanford SSRL synchrotron radiation and protein crystallography initiative led by Keith Hodgson.

MHz X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy with a containerless sample holder at the European XFEL is demonstrated.

A computing framework for real-time analysis of X-ray detector data streamed directly to Python applications via the EPICS pvAccess protocol is described.