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Title: Advantages of a Synchrotron Bending Magnet as the Sample Illuminator for a Wide-field X-ray Microscope

Abstract

In our paper the choice between bending magnets and insertion devices as sample illuminators for a hard X-ray full-field microscope is investigated. An optimized bending-magnet beamline design is presented. Its imaging speed is very competitive with the performance of similar microscopes installed currently at insertion-device beamlines. The fact that imaging X-ray microscopes can accept a large phase space makes them very well suited to the output characteristics of bending magnets which are often a plentiful and paid-for resource. There exist opportunities at all synchrotron light sources to take advantage of this finding to build bending-magnet beamlines that are dedicated to transmission X-ray microscope facilities. We expect that demand for such facilities will increase as three-dimensional tomography becomes routine and advanced techniques such as mosaic tomography and XANES tomography (taking three-dimensional tomograms at different energies to highlight elemental and chemical differences) become more widespread.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Xradia, Pleasanton, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1228907
Report Number(s):
BNL-110982-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0909-0495
DOE Contract Number:  
SC00112704
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 19; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0909-0495
Publisher:
International Union of Crystallography
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TXM microscope; bending-magnet beamline; synchrotron beamline design; x-ray microscope

Citation Formats

Feser, M., Howells, M. R., Kirz, J., Rudati, J., and Yun, W. Advantages of a Synchrotron Bending Magnet as the Sample Illuminator for a Wide-field X-ray Microscope. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1107/S0909049512023813.
Feser, M., Howells, M. R., Kirz, J., Rudati, J., & Yun, W. Advantages of a Synchrotron Bending Magnet as the Sample Illuminator for a Wide-field X-ray Microscope. United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0909049512023813
Feser, M., Howells, M. R., Kirz, J., Rudati, J., and Yun, W. 2012. "Advantages of a Synchrotron Bending Magnet as the Sample Illuminator for a Wide-field X-ray Microscope". United States. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0909049512023813.
@article{osti_1228907,
title = {Advantages of a Synchrotron Bending Magnet as the Sample Illuminator for a Wide-field X-ray Microscope},
author = {Feser, M. and Howells, M. R. and Kirz, J. and Rudati, J. and Yun, W.},
abstractNote = {In our paper the choice between bending magnets and insertion devices as sample illuminators for a hard X-ray full-field microscope is investigated. An optimized bending-magnet beamline design is presented. Its imaging speed is very competitive with the performance of similar microscopes installed currently at insertion-device beamlines. The fact that imaging X-ray microscopes can accept a large phase space makes them very well suited to the output characteristics of bending magnets which are often a plentiful and paid-for resource. There exist opportunities at all synchrotron light sources to take advantage of this finding to build bending-magnet beamlines that are dedicated to transmission X-ray microscope facilities. We expect that demand for such facilities will increase as three-dimensional tomography becomes routine and advanced techniques such as mosaic tomography and XANES tomography (taking three-dimensional tomograms at different energies to highlight elemental and chemical differences) become more widespread.},
doi = {10.1107/S0909049512023813},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1228907}, journal = {Journal of Synchrotron Radiation},
issn = {0909-0495},
number = 5,
volume = 19,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}