Cullie Sparks, 1929–2004

Determination of the three-dimensional structure of dislocations in silicon by synchrotron white X-ray topography combined with a topo-tomographic technique

The combination of synchrotron white X-ray topography and a topo-tomographic technique provides a useful tool for determining the three-dimensional structure of individual dislocations in silicon, i.e. the direction of the dislocation line, its Burgers vector and the glide plane.

Depth-resolved strain measurements in polycrystalline materials by energy-variable X-ray diffraction

An energy-variable synchrotron diffraction technique is being established as a novel method for the depth-resolved measurement of residual strains in polycrystalline structures.

Liquid-chromatography-coupled SAXS for accurate sizing of aggregating proteins

Molecular exclusion chromatography of proteins immediately preceding Guinier analysis of SAXS data greatly reduces complications due to association or aggregation and improves sensitivity and accuracy.

Protein Data Bank depositions from synchrotron sources

An investigation of depositions to the Protein Data Bank from synchrotron radiation sources.

The synchrotron powder diffractometer at beamline B2 at HASYLAB/DESY: status and capabilities

The refurbished powder diffraction beamline B2 at HASYLAB/DESY is described.

An inelastic X-ray scattering spectrometer at LNLS

A spectrometer for X-ray energy-loss experiments by electron excitations at the XRD1 beamline of the LNLS is described. Results from performance tests are presented.

Image quality improvement in a hard X-ray projection microscope using total reflection mirror optics

Highly accurate elliptical mirrors have been fabricated and evaluated to have high image quality in one-dimensionally diverging X-ray beams.

A large-area CMOS imager as an X-ray detector for synchrotron radiation experiments

A CMOS flatpanel detector has been tested in various synchrotron radiation experiments.

An apparatus for temperature-dependent soft X-ray resonant magnetic scattering

A novel diffractometer devoted to temperature-dependent soft X-ray resonant scattering is described. The principal features of the diffractometer are presented and illustrated through experiments performed at LURE during commissioning.

The use of ACORN in solving a 39.5 kDa macromolecule with 1.9 Å resolution laboratory source data

The power of ACORN for phasing a 39.5 kDa protein with laboratory source data at 1.9 Å resolution with seed-phase information of about 14% of the whole structure is reported.

A new in situ cell for XAFS investigations

A new in situ cell for X-ray absorption spectroscopic investigations has been designed and tested. With this cell it is possible to reach temperatures as high as 1250 K and record spectra in transmission and fluorescence modes simultaneously.

SOLEIL makes rapid progress

Diamond begins to take shape

SSRL enters its fourth decade with SPEAR-3

Daresbury gets a new director