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Enhancing the promise of additive manufacturing of polymers through controlled crystallisation
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Diamond scientists have developed the first Alvarez X-ray 'zoom' lens for synchrotrons
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A better understanding of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer composites will lead to more efficient designs and lower emissions
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New advanced speckle technique enables high precision metrology for X-ray mirrors.
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Combining synchrotron studies with other imaging techniques offers unprecedented insights.
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An innovative new type of optical component for X-rays has been developed by a scientific team in the Optics and Metrology Group at Diamond Light Source.
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Novel technique measures warpage in next-gen integrated circuits
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Iterative In-line Phase Contrast Imaging
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New imaging technique to map multiple elements during the solidification of alloys
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Quick and simple setup gives rich info with a reduced dose
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Innovative speckle technique could lead to simple imaging devices
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A collaboration including scientists from Diamond Light Source have helped to develop a new tool to investigate the liquid to glass transition – one of the lesser understood areas of condensed matter physics.
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New imaging technique uses X-rays to uncover the spatial distribution and orientation of molecules and their bonds.
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The high energy and short wavelength of X-rays make them ideal for imaging inner features of samples at the sub-micrometer scale. Over the past twenty years, imaging techniques exploiting the phase of X-rays have progressively developed, pushed by the desire of achieving higher resolution, and to image light materials such as biological soft tissue. X-ray grating interferometry (XGI) is one such successful technique that has seen its user community growing both at synchrotrons and lab-based ...
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Thin multilayer structures comprising of thin layers of alternating elements or compounds find widespread technological applications – be it the anti-reflection coating in the visible range or the waveguide structures for X-rays. In the X-ray regime they are also used in many technological applications such as X-ray astronomy, microscopy, spectroscopy, and as filters and monochromators for synchrotron radiation and free electron X-ray lasers. It is important to correlate the measured optical ...
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With the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs becoming more common around the world, there is a need to investigate more efficient and robust alternatives. Thanks to their low energy consumption, prolonged lifetime, small size and reliability, Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are seen as an attractive option. But they are not quite ready to take over from the light bulb yet. A bright white LED powerful enough to light up a room is currently very expensive. Research is underway to make white ...
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During the course of their treatment, around half of cancer patients receive some type of radiation therapy. This therapy is widely used to target tumours and modern techniques aim to avoid dose to healthy tissue as much as possible. However, toxicity developing within healthy tissue is still a problem and, as a result, scientists are looking for new techniques that can make cancer cells more sensitive to radiation.
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Our society takes for granted the high performance aluminium alloys used in aircraft, trains, fast ferries and motor vehicles. This high performance exists thanks to extensive research and development in industry and academia. One part of that research involves studying alloys as they solidify. During solidification, an alloy is a semi-solid “mush”, with properties that will significantly affect the quality of the final solid material. One property of great importance is the formation of ...
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Synchrotron applications such as coherent X-ray diffraction and X-ray photon-correlation spectroscopy require detectors with a very small pixel size. Furthermore, the detector should have a high frame rate, large dynamic range, high detection efficiency and be also radiation hard. The Medipix range of readout chips (Medipix2 and Medipix3), with a pixel pitch of 55 µm, emerged as good candidates to develop a large area detector for the aforementioned applications. However, reducing the pixel ...
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Diamond is one of the most interesting materials for many applications in engineering, electronics, jewellery, and synchrotron radiation instrumentation. Chemical vapour deposition techniques allow diamond growth on a range of substrates, and in a range of crystalline quality. Nano-crystalline diamond has been proposed for use in biosensors and nanolithography as it can be deposited with sub-µm resolution. X-ray optics made of diamond are almost transparent, very strong, and are subject to ...
Optics & Metrology