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Title: High-speed raster-scanning synchrotron serial microcrystallography with a high-precision piezo-scanner

Journal Article · · Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (Online)

The Frontier Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography (FMX) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II with its 1 µm beam size and photon flux of 3 × 1012photons s−1at a photon energy of 12.66 keV has reached unprecedented dose rates for a structural biology beamline. The high dose rate presents a great advantage for serial microcrystallography in cutting measurement time from hours to minutes. To provide the instrumentation basis for such measurements at the full flux of the FMX beamline, a high-speed, high-precision goniometer based on a uniqueXYZpiezo positioner has been designed and constructed. The piezo-based goniometer is able to achieve sub-100 nm raster-scanning precision at over 10 grid-linepairs s−1frequency for fly scans of a 200 µm-wide raster. The performance of the scanner in both laboratory and serial crystallography measurements up to the maximum frame rate of 750 Hz of the Eiger 16M's 4M region-of-interest mode has been verified in this work. This unprecedented experimental speed significantly reduces serial-crystallography data collection time at synchrotrons, allowing utilization of the full brightness of the emerging synchrotron radiation facilities.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; P41GM111244
OSTI ID:
1466078
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1476286
Report Number(s):
BNL-209117-2018-JAAM; JSYRES; PII: S1600577518010354
Journal Information:
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (Online), Journal Name: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (Online) Vol. 25 Journal Issue: 5; ISSN 1600-5775
Publisher:
International Union of CrystallographyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Denmark
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 16 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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