Patrick Yuheng Wang, Murilo Bazan da Silva, Georg Held, Hongchang Wang, Kawal Sawhney, Andrew C Walters
{"title":"An automated and robust method for modelling X-ray beamlines with plane grating monochromators.","authors":"Patrick Yuheng Wang, Murilo Bazan da Silva, Georg Held, Hongchang Wang, Kawal Sawhney, Andrew C Walters","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525003200","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525003200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The plane grating monochromator (PGM) is an optical instrument used in the majority of soft X-ray beamlines. Despite its ubiquity, the PGM efficiency can easily be overestimated, because the geometry of many modern PGMs can lead to unexpected blocking of the beam. We have developed a new workflow in Python for simulating PGMs, thus extending the capabilities of SHADOW3, a well established ray tracing software tool. We have used our method to simulate the flux on branch C of the Versatile Soft X-ray (VerSoX) beamline B07 at Diamond Light Source. The simulation results demonstrate qualitative agreement with the experimental measurements, confirming the robustness of the proposed methodology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"899-907"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236243/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144054907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyeong Uk Mo, Min Woo Kim, Chang Hun Lee, Jina Kim, Hyun Wook Park, Jae Hong Lim, Chang Hee Yim, Cheol Hee Nam, Jong Hyun Kim, Ho Jae Kwak
{"title":"An in situ visualization system using synchrotron white X-rays to investigate the solidification behaviors of metallic materials.","authors":"Hyeong Uk Mo, Min Woo Kim, Chang Hun Lee, Jina Kim, Hyun Wook Park, Jae Hong Lim, Chang Hee Yim, Cheol Hee Nam, Jong Hyun Kim, Ho Jae Kwak","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525003716","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525003716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An advanced imaging platform has been developed to study the microstructural solidification behaviors of metals using synchrotron white X-rays. This system provides submicrometre effective pixel size and a frame rate of thousands per second, enabling high-resolution and high-speed imaging. The system functions independently, facilitating convenient alignment, magnification adjustments, and precise control of the region of interest. Additionally, we designed a specialized furnace for in situ characterization of microstructures during melting and solidification of metallic specimens at high temperature. This furnace meets stringent optical requirements and allows for finely adjusted specimen temperature gradients through the configuration of heating elements and individual current control. The furnace supports stable high-temperature experiments under vacuum, in an argon atmosphere, and at ambient pressure. Using this advanced imaging system, we investigated real-time in situ solidification phenomena of various metallic materials and other solidifying systems such as silicon. We performed image analysis to quantitatively assess microstructural changes, calculate dendritic spacing and determine liquid fractions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"1028-1035"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236257/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144133272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D Kroon, E Nilsson, B Ahn, M Bertelli, R Calarco, I Clementsson, S De Simone, J C Ekström, A Jurgilaitis, M Longo, V T Pham, J Larsson
{"title":"A cross-correlator-based timing tool for FemtoMAX.","authors":"D Kroon, E Nilsson, B Ahn, M Bertelli, R Calarco, I Clementsson, S De Simone, J C Ekström, A Jurgilaitis, M Longo, V T Pham, J Larsson","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525003479","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525003479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report on the commissioning of an ultrafast timing diagnostic for measuring a time-offset signal between two different synchronized ultrashort light pulses. The method is based on sum-frequency generation in a nonlinear crystal. The setup is similar to an auto/cross-correlator setup. In this case, one of the beams is a relatively weak diagnostic beam of visible light from a bending magnet at FemtoMAX (10<sup>6</sup> photons pulse<sup>-1</sup> in a 0.2 mm high and 5 mm wide beam) while the other is a relatively intense laser beam (200 µJ pulse<sup>-1</sup>) derived from the same laser that is used to pump the sample in pump/probe experiments. This enables online monitoring of the relative timing of a linear accelerator-based, short-pulse, hard X-ray source and a synchronized visible laser. We show that for a <50 fs full width at half-maximum (FWHM) light pulse from the accelerator and a 50 fs (FWHM) long laser pulse, we can determine the relative timing of the two pulses with an accuracy below 30 fs in a time interval of 4 ps. The advantages and limitations of the method are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"1052-1058"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236248/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144209991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peng Cheng Li, Xiao Xue Bi, Zhen Zhang, Xiao Bao Deng, Chun Li, Li Wen Wang, Gong Fa Liu, Yi Zhang, Ai Yu Zhou, Yu Liu
{"title":"A versatile framework for attitude tuning of beamlines at light source facilities.","authors":"Peng Cheng Li, Xiao Xue Bi, Zhen Zhang, Xiao Bao Deng, Chun Li, Li Wen Wang, Gong Fa Liu, Yi Zhang, Ai Yu Zhou, Yu Liu","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525003960","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525003960","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aside from regular beamline experiments at light sources, the preparation steps before these experiments are also worthy of systematic consideration in terms of automation; a representative category in these steps is attitude tuning, which typically appears in contexts like beam focusing, sample alignment etc. With the goal of saving time and human effort in both writing and using such code, a Mamba-based attitude-tuning framework is created. It supports flexible input/output ports, easy integration of diverse evaluation functions and free selection of optimization algorithms. With the help of Mamba's infrastructure, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can also be readily integrated. The tuning of a polycapillary lens and of an X-ray emission spectrometer are given as examples for the general use of this framework, featuring powerful command-line interfaces (CLIs) and friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that allow comfortable human-in-the-loop control. The tuning of a Raman spectrometer demonstrates more specialized use of the framework with customized optimization algorithms. With similar applications in mind, this framework is estimated to be capable of fulfilling most attitude-tuning needs. Also reported is a virtual-beamline mechanism based on easily customisable simulated detectors and motors, which facilitates both testing for developers and training for users, as well as the encapsulation of digital twins.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"924-933"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144276288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ramesh Rijal, Jack Stephens, Daniel Sier, Nicholas T T Tran, Truong V B Nguyen, Jonathan W Dean, Pierce Bowman, Minh Dao, Paul Di Pasquale, Tony Kirk, Chanh Q Tran, Shusaku Hayama, Matteo Aramini, Nitya Ramanan, Sofia Diaz-Moreno, Christopher T Chantler
{"title":"Hyper-resolution in X-ray emission spectroscopy: integrating extended-range high energy resolution fluorescence detection and multiple-crystal spectrometry with advanced binary data splicing.","authors":"Ramesh Rijal, Jack Stephens, Daniel Sier, Nicholas T T Tran, Truong V B Nguyen, Jonathan W Dean, Pierce Bowman, Minh Dao, Paul Di Pasquale, Tony Kirk, Chanh Q Tran, Shusaku Hayama, Matteo Aramini, Nitya Ramanan, Sofia Diaz-Moreno, Christopher T Chantler","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525004084","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525004084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study of manganese (Mn, Z = 25) introduces a novel combination of extended-range high energy resolution fluorescence detection (XR-HERFD), multiple-crystal spectrometers and advanced binary data splicing techniques to address challenges in X-ray emission spectroscopy. XR-HERFD enhances spectral precision by utilizing high-resolution crystal analysers and optimized detector configurations. The systematic application of these methods using multiple Bragg crystal analysers at Diamond Light Source has led to substantial improvements in data quality. Simultaneously, advanced binary data splicing integrates multiple datasets to correct distortions and improve resolution, resulting in sharper spectral features. Our results show a significant increase in peak counts and a notable reduction in full width at half-maximum (FWHM), with peak amplitudes increasing by 83% and resolution improving by 46%. These developments provide greater detail for X-ray absorption or emission spectra, offering valuable insights into complex materials, and permitting advances and breakthroughs in atomic relativistic quantum mechanics, chemical sensitivity of atomic transitions and modelling of solid-state effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"994-1009"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236247/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal of a vertically polarized superconducting multipole wiggler using Nb<sub>3</sub>Sn coils.","authors":"Hirotoshi Saito, Kimichika Tsuchiya, Chikaori Mitsuda, Kentaro Harada, Yoshito Shimosaki, Takashi Obina","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525004382","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577525004382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose a vertically polarized superconducting multipole wiggler (V-SC-MPW) that enables the use of vertically polarized hard X-rays with minimal impact on beam quality. Vertical polarization facilitates unique experimental setups by allowing horizontal arrangement of optical equipment, which is difficult to realize with horizontally polarized X-rays. However, significant emittance growth has prevented the adoption of such vertically polarized, high-field devices in third-generation light sources. To address this challenge, the V-SC-MPW employs a short-period design. By utilizing Nb<sub>3</sub>Sn superconducting wires, which have a critical current density approximately 10 times higher than that of conventional NbTi, the period length can be shortened while maintaining the required magnetic field, thereby reducing the beam orbit amplitude and the resulting emittance growth. A case study that considers the introduction of the V-SC-MPW into PF-HLS, a future light source planned at KEK, shows that, with a horizontal magnetic gap of 30 mm, a design featuring a peak magnetic field of 2.44 T, a period length of 85 mm and an orbit amplitude of 54 µm at a beam energy of 2.5 GeV is feasible. This seven-period V-SC-MPW, assumed to be installed in a non-achromatic straight section of PF-HLS, is estimated to result in emittance growths of 15.6 pm rad horizontally and 1.0 pm rad vertically. These minimal impacts indicate that the short-period V-SC-MPW is a promising insertion device for utilizing vertically polarized hard X-rays in modern low-emittance rings with intermediate beam energies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"934-941"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12236245/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing resolution with the extended image restoration method: strain field energy and correlation length analysis in Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging.","authors":"Kyuseok Yun, Sungwook Choi, Hyunjung Kim","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525002942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525002942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding atomic-level imperfections is crucial in various technological applications. Bragg coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (BCDI) enables non-destructive, three-dimensional imaging of those materials under in situ and operando conditions but has limited spatial resolution. This limitation hinders accurate calculations of physical quantities, e.g. strain field energy and strain correlation lengths. In this study, we introduce the extended image restoration (ExImRes) method, which infers enhanced resolution images based primarily on the process of averaging and combining multiple datasets obtained by restricting the original measured datasets through binning or cropping. We apply ExImRes to two nanocrystal examples-a chiral gold nanoparticle and a platinum nanoparticle-with an improved spatial resolution that allowed us to obtain precise calculation results of strain field energy and the correlation lengths of atomic deformations. The enhanced images reveal detailed lattice-scale information previously inaccessible through traditional BCDI methods. Our findings advance ExImRes to obtain high-resolution analysis in imaging techniques that involve reciprocal to real space transformations and understand underlying phenomena in materials science.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"32 Pt 3","pages":"743-749"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067331/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global cross-database search system for X-ray absorption spectra.","authors":"Masashi Ishii, Asahiko Matsuda, Koichi Sakamoto, Shohei Yamashita, Yasuhiro Niwa, Yasuhiro Inada","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525002206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525002206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the importance of a systematic overview of scientific data and demands toward data integration are increasing, data capitalization and confidentiality are also emerging competitively. X-ray absorption spectroscopy has a strong tradition of data sharing, as cross-referencing data enhances the detailed understanding of the obtained spectra. While physically integrating databases in various formats is impractical, a system has been successfully developed that allows cross-searching among Japanese, USA and European databases in cyberspace. This achievement is made possible through the realization of `vocabulary unification' and `knowledge unification' on a global scale, implemented in publicly accessible endpoints. This paper provides a summary of the concepts of terminology, ontology and semantics for X-ray spectroscopy behind this system, and presents a pilot case study along with future directions for data integration in synchrotron radiation science.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"32 Pt 3","pages":"661-668"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144055896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simona Bettoni, Jonas Kallestrup, Güney Erin Tekin, Michael Böge, Romana Boiger
{"title":"Machine learning for orbit steering in the presence of nonlinearities.","authors":"Simona Bettoni, Jonas Kallestrup, Güney Erin Tekin, Michael Böge, Romana Boiger","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525002334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525002334","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Circular particle accelerators require precise beam orbit correction to maintain the beam's trajectory close to the ideal `golden orbit', which is centered within all magnetic elements of the ring, except for slight deviations due to installed experiments. Traditionally, this correction is achieved using methodologies based on the response matrix (RM). The RM elements remain constant when the accelerator's lattice includes solely linear elements or when a linear approximation is valid for small perturbations, allowing for the calculation of corrector strengths to steer the beam. However, most circular accelerators contain nonlinear magnets, leading to variations in RM elements when the beam experiences large perturbations, rendering traditional methods less effective and necessitating multiple iterations for convergence. To address these challenges, a machine learning (ML)-based approach is explored for beam orbit correction. This approach, applied to synchrotron SLS 2.0 under construction at the Paul Scherrer Institut, is evaluated against and in combination with the standard RM-based method under various conditions. A possible limitation of ML for this application is the potential change in the dimensionality of the ML model after optimization, which could affect performance. A solution to this issue is proposed, improving the robustness and appeal of the ML-based method for efficient beam orbit steering.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"32 Pt 3","pages":"609-621"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067324/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determining the optimal choice of attenuation filters and propagation distance for polychromatic phase-contrast micro-computed tomography of a multi-material electromotor using synchrotron radiation.","authors":"Matthias Diez, Simon Zabler","doi":"10.1107/S1600577525002814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525002814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Optimizing phase-contrast micro-computed tomography (µCT) for a given object is not trivial if the radiation is polychromatic and the object multi-material. This study demonstrates how an optimal combination of propagation distance and mean energy (set by attenuation filters) may be derived for such an object (an electromotor scanned on beamline BM18 at ESRF in Grenoble, France). In addition to appropriate image quality metrics, it is mandatory to define a task. In that respect, raising E<sub>mean</sub> from 100 keV to 164 keV mitigates beam hardening by metal parts, yet raising E<sub>mean</sub> further to 230 keV deteriorates CNR<sup>2</sup> (where CNR is contrast-to-noise ratio) due to higher image noise. Propagation distances between d = 2 m and 25.3 m are evaluated crosswise with energy. While longer propagation distances generally yield higher CNR<sup>2</sup>, shorter distances appear favorable when discerning plastic near metal parts. SNR<sup>2</sup> (where SNR is signal-to-noise ratio) power spectra and modulation transfer (MTF) are evaluated independently from two-dimensional projections supporting volume image analysis for which image sharpness depends strongly on the digital filters (Paganin and Wiener) which are applied along with filtered back-projection. In summary, optimizing synchrotron µCT scans remains a very complex task which differs from object to object. A physically accurate model of the complete imaging process may not only allow for optimization by simulation but also ideally improve CT image reconstruction in the near future.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":"32 Pt 3","pages":"731-742"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12067323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144035872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}