Diffraction with a coherent X-ray beam: dynamics and imaging
- LTPCM-ENSEEG, UMR-CNRS 5614, INPG/UJF, BP 75, 38402 St Martin d’Hères (France)
Techniques for coherent X-ray scattering measurements are detailed. Applications in the study of the dynamics of fluctuations and in lensless high-resolution imaging are described. Methods for carrying out coherent X-ray scattering experiments are reviewed. The brilliance of the available synchrotron sources, the characteristics of the existing optics, the various ways of obtaining a beam of controlled coherence properties and the detectors used are summarized. Applications in the study of the dynamics of speckle patterns are described. In the case of soft condensed matter, the movement of inclusions like fillers in polymers or colloidal particles can be observed and these can reflect polymer or liquid-crystal fluctuations. In hard condensed-matter problems, like phase transitions, charge-density waves or phasons in quasicrystals, the study of speckle fluctuations provides new time-resolved methods. In the domain of lensless imaging, the coherent beam gives the modulus of the sample Fourier transform. If oversampling conditions are fulfilled, the phase can be obtained and the image in the direct space can be reconstructed. The forthcoming improvements of all these techniques are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22347664
- Journal Information:
- Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations of Crystallography, Vol. 63, Issue Pt 2; Other Information: PMCID: PMC2525861; PUBLISHER-ID: sh5049; PMID: 17301470; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2525861; Copyright (c) International Union of Crystallography 2007; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms described at http://journals.iucr.org/services/termsofuse.html.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0108-7673
- Country of Publication:
- Denmark
- Language:
- English
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