SR Conference Proceedings and JSR

Synchrotron Radiation – Early History

A Prospect and Retrospect – the Japanese Case

How X-ray Diffraction with Synchrotron Radiation Got Started

The Advanced Photon Source: Performance and Results from Early Operation

Present Status of the Pohang Light Source

SPring-8 Program

Synchrotron Radiation Sources – Present Capabilities and Future Directions

Synchrotron Light Sources and Recent Developments of Accelerator Technology

Development of Synchrotron Radiation Storage Rings

Present Status of SPring-8 Insertion Devices

APS Insertion Devices: Recent Developments and Results

The ESRF Insertion Devices

Advanced Capabilities for Future Light Sources

High-Energy Inelastic-Scattering Beamline for Electron Momentum Density Study

ID14 `Quadriga', a Beamline for Protein Crystallography at the ESRF

Trichromatic Concept at SPring-8 RIKEN Beamline I

Focusing Optics for High-Energy X-ray Diffraction

Instrumentation Developments for X-ray Linear and Circular Dichroism at the ESRF Beamline ID12A

Graded X-ray Optics for Synchrotron Radiation Applications

Application of a Varied-Line-Spacing Grating in a High-Performance Soft X-ray Monochromator

A Pixel-Array Detector for Time-Resolved X-ray Diffraction

Development of a MicroStrip Gas Chamber as a Time-Resolved Area Detector

One- and Two-Coordinate Detectors in BINP

High-Resolution High-Count-Rate X-ray Spectroscopy with State-of-the-Art Silicon Detectors

Avalanche Photodiodes as Fast X-ray Detectors

High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction of Muscle Using Undulator Radiation from the Tristan Main Ring at KEK

Experiments with Very High Energy Synchrotron Radiation

Spectroscopic Techniques using Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron and Conventional Lasers

The Soft X-ray Scanning Photoemission Microscopy Project at SRRC

From First-Order Coherence to Higher-Order Coherence of Synchrotron Radiation

Phase-Contrast Tomographic Imaging Using an X-ray Interferometer

X-ray Holography for Structural Imaging

Synchrotron Radiation Lithography for Manufacturing Integrated Circuits Beyond 100 nm

Medical Applications with Synchrotron Radiation in Japan

A compact superconducting ring as a radiation source for X-ray crystallography

Design of a compact synchrotron light source for medical applications at NIRS

Design of a synchrotron radiation source at Tohoku University

Isochronous storage ring of the New SUBARU project

Compact synchrotron light source of the HSRC

Magnet lattice for the Siam Photon Source

Operational performance of the NIJI-III superconducting storage ring

Design study of a free-electron laser on a storage ring at Tohoku University

Beam commissioning of the SPring-8 synchrotron

Proposal of a high-field superconducting wiggler for a slow positron source at SPring-8

Suppressing the X–Y coupling effect in compact electron storage rings

Reconstruction for the brilliance-upgrading project of the Photon Factory storage ring

Installation of new damped cavities at the Photon Factory storage ring

Effect of the RF cavity temperature on low-energy injection at HLS

A crowbarless power supply for klystrons

Submicrometre resolution phase-contrast radiography with the beam from an X-ray waveguide

RF system of the SPring-8 storage ring

Magnetic measurement system for high-field magnets

Construction of 714 MHz HOM-free accelerating cavities

New method of Helmholtz coil alignment

Measurement of the electron energy and energy spread at the electron storage ring BESSY I

Operational evaluation of ultrahigh-vacuum protection systems for intense-photon-flux wiggler beamlines

A dynamic local bump system for producing synchrotron radiation with an alternating elliptical polarization

Performance of a fixed-taper in-vacuum undulator at SPring-8

In-vacuum undulators of SPring-8

SPring-8 in-vacuum undulator beam test at the ESRF

Development of an in-vacuum minipole undulator

In-vacuum figure-8 undulator for hard X-rays with both horizontal and vertical polarization

Construction of a vertical undulator at SPring-8

Initial results from an in-vacuum undulator in the NSLS X-ray ring

An SRRC elliptically polarizing undulator prototype to examine mechanical design feasibility and magnetic field performance

Spectral properties of the polarizing devices at SRRC

SPring-8 twin helical undulator

OPHÉLIE: a variable-polarization electromagnetic undulator optimized for a VUV beamline at Super-ACO

Development of an elliptical multipole wiggler at SPring-8

Design of a 2 T multipole wiggler insertion device for the SRS

The operation of a superconducting wiggler at TERAS

Superconducting 7 T wiggler for LSU CAMD

Insertion devices for BESSY II

Undulators at HiSOR – a compact racetrack-type ring

A superconductive undulator with a period length of 3.8 mm

The PTB electromagnetic undulator for BESSY II

Performance of a helical undulator of the UVSOR

Measurement of the coherence of synchrotron radiation

An insertion device for the soft X-ray photochemistry beamline at SPring-8

A practically zero horizontal magnetic field in a planar undulator used in the Tristan Super Light Facility

Design of a local bump feedback system for a variably polarizing undulator

A magnet model for a hybrid undulator assembly

Advanced field-measurement method with three orthogonal Hall probes for an elliptically polarizing undulator

Rotating/Helmholtz coil system using a lock-in amplifier method

Effects of magnets with non-unit magnetic permeability on an elliptically polarizing undulator

A three-dimensional magnetostatics computer code for insertion devices

First results from the crystal structure analysis beamline at SPring-8

Generalized grazing-incidence-angle X-ray diffraction (G-GIXD) using image plates

A versatile X-ray diffraction station at LNLS (Brazil)

Protein crystallography using a multilayer monochromator

Beamline 14: a new multipole wiggler beamline for protein crystallography on the SRS

Focusing monochromator and imaging-plate camera for grazing-incidence diffraction studies of thin films

Improvement of beamline 4B9A and results of an X-ray diffraction experiment

First performance assessment of the small-angle X-ray scattering beamline at ELETTRA

Material analysis end-station of the Hyogo-ken beamline at SPring-8

The commissioning of a flexible low-cost multipurpose X-ray beamline at SRRC

Cryogenic high-resolution X-ray spectrometers for SR-XRF and microanalysis

The Dutch–Belgian beamline at the ESRF

Commissioning and first results of the LNLS XAFS beamline

Design and feasibility of quick EXAFS scans for a `broomstick' double-crystal monochromator at PLS beamline

New beamline optics for the effective use of a wiggler beam

New wiggler beamlines at BSRF

X-ray absorption beamline at the Mitsubishi compact storage ring

Construction of the JAERI soft X-ray beamline for actinide material sciences

The LNLS soft X-ray spectroscopy beamline

Twin helical undulator beamline for soft X-ray spectroscopy at SPring-8

Soft X-ray photochemistry beamline at SPring-8

A beamline for photochemical processes at atmospheric pressure

A high-performance wide-range beamline for elliptically polarized undulator source

A grazing-incidence reflectometer for BL-39XU at SPring-8

A compact vacuum-ultraviolet beamline for synchrotron radiation photoelectron spectroscopy combined with an ion-scattering spectrometer, SORIS

Optical design of the NSRL undulator beamline

Design of a high-flux and high-resolution VUV bending-magnet beamline

The gas-phase photoemission beamline at Elettra

Performance of the VUV beamline 4.1 at the SRS, Daresbury Laboratory

Optical design for a bending-magnet beamline based on a varied-line-spacing plane grating

SINBAD, a brilliant IR source from the DAΦNE storage ring

Upgraded IR beamline at UVSOR

Design of a pre-slit for SPring-8 undulator beamlines

A new UHV angle encoder for high-resolution synchrotron radiation monochromators

A novel approach to the control of experimental environments: the ESCA microscopy data-acquisition system at ELETTRA

SPring-8 beamline control system

Object library for a new generation of experiment-controlling applications under the UNIX operating system

Characterization of windows and filters for coherent X-ray beamlines

SCIPE – a simple control interface protocol for experimenters

New transmission-type X-ray filters consisting of amorphous multilayer films

Front-end XY-slits assembly for the SPring-8 undulator beamlines

Allowable aperture size of the front end for the high-heat-load undulator beamlines of SPring-8

Development of a three-electrode-lens drift tube for time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Shielding design calculation for SPring-8 beamlines using STAC8

Single-pass BPM system of the Photon Factory storage ring

A synchrotron radiation beam-position monitor at the Taiwan Light Source

New beam-position monitor system for upgraded Photon Factory storage ring

Beam-position monitors in the X-ray undulator beamline at PETRA

Electronics for SPring-8 X-ray beam monitors

Smart X-ray beam position monitor system using artificial-intelligence methods for the Advanced Photon Source insertion-device beamlines

Synthetic diamond-based position-sensitive photoconductive detector development for the Advanced Photon Source

Diagnostic front end for BESSY II

Spatio-temporal measurement of beam properties in the PLS diagnostic beamline

Source, optical and detector requirements for X-ray diffraction and scattering

Optical design of the U7 undulator beamline at the Pohang Light Source

The multicrystal monochromators of the TROIKA beamline at ESRF

A uniformly cleaved epitaxically grown diamond crystal for synchrotron radiation

Optical design of the general-purpose Spanish X-ray beamline for absorption and diffraction

Rotated-inclined double-crystal monochromator for synchrotron radiation: aberration and its compensation

A high-performance double-crystal monochromator soft X-ray beamline

Finite-element study of a toothed-crystal monochromator

X-ray diffraction with a Bragg angle near π/2 and its applications

A new water-cooled and doubly bent crystal monochromator for Compton scattering experiments

Development of an (X, eX) spectrometer for measuring the energies of the scattered photon and recoil electron

Position of exit X-rays from rotated-inclined double-crystal monochromators

Adaptive indirectly cooled monochromator crystals at HASYLAB

Microcontroller-based servo for two-crystal X-ray monochromators

Focusing and reflection by a bent crystal for high-energy synchrotron radiation

Soft X-ray multilayer beam splitters

Characterization of substrates for use in X-ray multilayer optics

A simple accurate method of alignment of beamline optics with the use of EUV multilayer polarizers

Bent-crystal monochromators for high-energy synchrotron radiation

Fabrication of Mo/Al multilayer films for a wavelength of 18.5 nm

(Ta/Si) multilayer as a wide-bandpass monochromator material

Design and fabrication of highly heat-resistant Mo/Si multilayer soft X-ray mirrors with interleaved barrier layers

Fabrication and characterization of multilayer supermirrors for hard X-ray optics

Design and performance of a multilayered mirror monochromator in the low-energy region of the VUV

Use of YB₆₆ as monochromator crystals for soft-energy EXAFS

Optimization strategies for XUV monochromators

A unique high-performance wide-range (10–1500 eV) spherical grating monochromator beamline

Performance of the YB₆₆ soft X-ray monochromator crystal at the wiggler beamline of the UVSOR facility

A soft X-ray (80–1500 eV) grazing-incidence monochromator with varied-line-spacing plane gratings at PF-BL-11A

Transmission multilayer polarizers for use in the 55–90 eV region

High-performance EUV/soft X-ray ellipsometry system using multilayer mirrors

Transmission-type X-ray linear polarizer with perfect crystals

A new compact spin- and angle-resolving photoelectron spectrometer with a high efficiency

Stretched polymers for X-ray linear and circular polarization

A plane-grating monochromator for circularly polarized undulator radiation at BESSY II

Nanosecond-resolved XMCD on ID24 at the ESRF to investigate the element-selective dynamics of magnetization switching of Gd–Co amorphous thin film

A scattering filter for energy-dispersive optics

Absolute calibration of a soft X-ray spectrograph for X-ray laser research using white beam

Beamline for calibration of transfer standard light sources in the UV and VUV regions

Calibration of space-resolving VUV and soft X-ray spectrographs for plasma diagnostics

Construction and performance test of SGM-TRAIN at UVSOR

Plane-grating monochromator at BESSY II using collimated light

UV emission spectrometer using a non-periodic grating

Design of an 18 m spherical-grating monochromator at UVSOR

High-resolution spherical grating monochromator for the undulator beamline (BL-16B) at the Photon Factory

A plane-grating monochromator beamline for the PTB undulators at BESSY II

Higher-order suppression in diffraction-grating monochromators using thin films

Recent performance of the Photon Factory gratingcrystal monochromator station BL-1A in the soft X-ray region

Components for the X-ray radiometry beamline at BESSY II

Electron-beam writing of large-area Fresnel zone plates

Ti/Al multilayer zone plate and Bragg–­Fresnel lens

Multi-segmented piezoelectric mirrors as active/adaptive optics components

A compact mirror manipulator in the SRRC beamline

Design optimization of a flexural hinge-based bender for X-ray optics

Design of and metrological results from a bent parabolic mirror

Thermal and deformation analyses of side-cooled monochromator mirrors for the SPring-8/Figure-8 soft X-ray undulator

An assessment of approximating aspheres with more easily manufactured surfaces

Comparison of monochromators with a bent parabolic mirror and a varied-spacing grating for the 2.0 GeV high-brilliance synchrotron radiation source (VSX)

Ray-tracing analysis of capillary concentrators for macromolecular crystallography

An eight-position capillary sample spinning stage for the diffractometer at BL20B at the Photon Factory

Optical design for laser Doppler angular encoder with sub-nrad sensitivity

An electrostrictive drive for fine pitch control in double-crystal monochromators

Manufacturing advances in large grazing-incidence optics

Reconstruction of BL7B for UV, VIS and IR spectroscopy with a 3 m normal-incidence monochromator

High-flux and high-resolution spectroscopic facility in the VUV region at Super-ACO

Activities of optical laboratories 1 and 2 at the Photon Factory

Initial data from the 30-element ORTEC HPGe detector array and the XSPRESS pulse-processing electronics at the SRS, Daresbury Laboratory

Development of high-throughput flexible multichannel electron detectors at Daresbury Laboratory

Dead-time correction of a multi-element SSD for fluorescent XAFS

A new image-plate reader for various sizes and shapes

X-ray polarimetry with the microstrip gas chamber

A multiwire proportional counter for very high counting rates

Development of 32-channel silicon drift detectors and digital electronics for X-ray spectroscopy

High-accuracy detector calibration in the 3–1500 eV spectral range at the PTB radiometry laboratory

Absolute soft X-ray measurements using an ion chamber

A new ion chamber with a movable photodiode monitor for absolute intensity measurements of soft X-rays

New methods for semiconductor charge-diffusion-length measurements using synchrotron radiation

Characterization and interpretation of the quantum efficiencies of multilayer semiconductor detectors using a new theory

Detailed simulation of the response function of an Si(Li) detector

Pulse-height measurements with a cooled avalanche-photodiode detector

A compact UHV X-ray diffractometer for studying surfaces and interfaces

An ultrahigh-vacuum chamber for surface X-ray diffraction

An additional axis for the surface X-ray diffractometer

Surface X-ray scattering system at the SRRC

Observation of composition in surface monolayers by X-ray scattering spectra caused by crystal truncation and interferences

Micro X-ray diffraction analysis of thin films using grazing-exit conditions

Development of a compact six-circle goniometer

DAFS measurements using the image-plate Weissenberg method

Sample-angle feedback for diffraction anomalous fine-structure spectroscopy

A new macromolecular oscillation camera at CHESS

Four-crystal camera at BSRF and its applications

Valence-difference contrast measurements utilizing X-ray anomalous scattering

Partial structural functions of binary liquids estimated from anomalous X-ray scattering measurements

Multiple-wavelength powder diffraction using imaging plates at the Australian National Beamline

New high- and low-temperature apparatus for synchrotron polycrystalline X-ray diffraction

High-pressure system for Compton scattering experiments

Development of an in-situ X-ray diffraction system for observation of electrodeposition of metallic layers

A 3 T superconducting magnet for long-run magnetic Compton-scattering experiments

High-energy magnetic Compton scattering experiments at ESRF

The influence of interface roughness on Mössbauer filtration of synchrotron radiation at an isotope interface

Mössbauer surface-guided waves in media with space modulation of Mössbauer isotope concentration

A high-temperature environmental chamber for nuclear-resonant Bragg scattering studies

X-ray characterization of α-Fe₂O₃ single crystals containing 2.2% and 95% ⁵⁷Fe

Precision goniometer equipped with a 22-bit absolute rotary encoder

Tensometry of carbon fibres and elastomers at the diffractometer at BL20B of the Photon Factory

Structure changes in the sol–gel systems of hydrated oxides

Observation of the strain field near the Si(111) 7 × 7 surface with a new X-ray diffraction technique

Investigation of the phase shift in X-ray forward diffraction using an X-ray interferometer

Layered structure analysis of GMR multilayers by X-ray reflectometry using the anomalous dispersion effect

Site specification on normal and magnetic XANES of ferrimagnetic Fe₃O₄ by means of resonant magnetic Bragg scattering

Application of a fine thread beam to the structure analysis of a hemihedrally twinned crystal of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase

Structural studies of endohedral metallofullerenes by synchrotron radiation powder diffraction

X-ray parametric scattering by a diamond crystal

In situ observation of phase transformation in an Fe–Zn system at high temperatures using an image plate

On a spatially resolving USAXS instrument for operation at a third-generation synchrotron radiation source

XAFS and X-MCD spectroscopies with undulator gap scan

Two recent developments in XMCD

X-ray linear birefringence and linear dichroism in a cobalt crystal measured with a tunable X-ray polarimeter

X-ray magnetic reflectometry using circularly polarized radiation

Pump and probe X-ray absorption fine structure using high-brilliance photon sources

X-ray absorption of bromo­naphthalene dissolved in supercritical fluid xenon

XAFS in the high-energy region

Polarization analysis in the 3–25 keV range at the ESRF magnetic scattering beamline

Spectrometer for polarized soft X-ray Raman scattering

Phase transitions of CdS microcrystals under high pressure

Improvement of spectrometer energy resolution for high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy

Density measurements of liquid under high pressure and high temperature

Real-time analysis for MBE by time-resolved core-level photoelectron spectroscopy

An ultrahigh-vacuum goniometer for in situ soft X-ray standing-wave analysis of semiconductor surfaces

Experimental comparison between the conversion electron yield and X-ray fluorescence in catalyst analysis

Combined system of synchrotron radiation and laser for solid-state research

A compact molecular-beam epitaxy apparatus for in situ soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism experiments

Photoionization studies of sulfur radicals and products of their reactions

Angle-resolved UV photoelectron spectra (UPS) of thin films of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetra­carboxylic dianhydride on MoS₂

Temperature dependence of photoelectron angular distribution from thin films of chloroaluminum phthalocyanine on MoS₂

In situ studies of metal–semiconductor interactions with synchrotron radiation

Inelastic X-ray scattering in molecular liquids and electron correlation effects

X-ray triple refraction and triple absorption in a cobalt-complex crystal

Experimental apparatus for the study of photoabsorption processes of multiply charged ions by synchrotron radiation

Local structure study of dilute Er in III–V semiconductors by fluorescence EXAFS

Trace element analysis on Si wafer surfaces by TXRF at the ID32 ESRF undulator beamline

Mn Lα,β and F Kα resonant X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of MnF₂

Laser-induced fluorescence excitation spectroscopy of N₂⁺ produced by VUV photoionization of N₂ and N₂O

Application of synchrotron radiation to ultrafast spectroscopy

Time-resolved fluorescent X-ray interference

High-resolution X-ray topographic images of dislocations in a silicon crystal recorded using an X-ray zooming tube

A Be-window-type X-ray zooming tube was used as an imaging detector in double-crystal X-ray topography to obtain high resolution images of dislocations in a silicon crystal.

The white-radiation dynamic topography experimental system at the BSRF

A bent Laue analyser crystal for Rayleigh-to-Compton computed tomography

Three-dimensional tomography using a soft X-ray holographic microscope and CCD camera

Development of scanning X-ray microscopes for materials science spectromicroscopy at the Advanced Light Source

X-ray wideband in-line holography using a zone plate

Deep X-ray lithography with a tunable wavelength shifter at CAMD

X-ray contact microscopy system for spectromicroscopy of biological specimens

Imaging soft X-ray microscope at Rits Synchrotron Radiation Center

Studies on intracellular structures of COS cells by X-ray microscopy

Development of X-ray photoemission electron microscopy (X-PEEM) at the SRS

Submicrometre-area high-energy-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy system

X-ray microprobe system for XRF analysis and spectroscopy at SPring-8 BL39XU

Imaging X-ray fluorescence microscope with a Wolter-type grazing-incidence mirror

Development of an ultra-fast data-acquisition system for a two-dimensional microstrip gas chamber

Development of a two-dimensional imaging system for clinical applications of intravenous coronary angiography using intense synchrotron radiation produced by a multipole wiggler

Bronchography test studies at the angiography station of the VEPP-3 storage ring

High-spatial-resolution and real-time medical imaging using a high-sensitivity HARPICON camera

Phase-contrast X-ray CT image of breast tumor

Application of synchrotron radiation in investigation of metal-ion release from a hip replacement prosthesis

Rapid projection of crystal grain orientation distribution in aluminium alloy sheets by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Synchrotron-radiation-induced formation of salt particles on an X-ray lithography mask

XAFS spectra from reflectivity measurements

X-ray absorption fine structure of V₂O₅ and Li_xV₂O₅

Design of beamline optics for EUVL

Synchrotron radiation direct photo-etching of polymers and crystals for micromachining

Commissioning and Operation of the First Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source

Compact Superconducting Ring at Ritsumeikan University

Present Status of the UVSOR Facility – 1997

NSRL Phase II Project (a Brief Introduction and Status)

The Siam Photon Laboratory

The Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HSRC)

X-ray Scattering and Absorption by Magnetic Materials