{"title":"30 years of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation and synchrotron science.","authors":"S Samar Hasnain","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010798","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (JSR) came into being with the publication of its inaugural issue in October 1994 that contained 15 full articles comprising 100 pages. Thirty years of JSR has coincided with several Nobel Prizes that have arisen from the work undertaken on synchrotron radiation sources, with the first of these awarded to Sir John Walker in 1997, just three years after the launch of JSR, and celebrated on the front cover of the journal's July 1999 issue. This article provides an insight into the motivation as well as the journey of establishing this important journal for the IUCr and the synchrotron radiation community which has continued to grow. We also highlight some of the well cited papers for each of the five-year-periods during these 30 years and demonstrate how the journal has become the natural home for all aspects of synchrotron radiation science and technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669536","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}
S Olivia Gunther, Patrick W Smith, Jacob A Branson, Alexander S Ditter, Stefan G Minasian, Alpha T N'Diaye, Bianca Schacherl, David K Shuh
{"title":"A fully contained sample holder capable of electron-yield detection at soft X-ray energies.","authors":"S Olivia Gunther, Patrick W Smith, Jacob A Branson, Alexander S Ditter, Stefan G Minasian, Alpha T N'Diaye, Bianca Schacherl, David K Shuh","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524011354","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524011354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A holder has been developed that enables electron yield-detected soft X-ray spectroscopy of fully contained samples at low temperature. Crucially, this design uses elements of the sample containment to collect ejected electrons, removing the need to expose samples directly to the vacuum environment of the spectrometer. The design is modular and should be adaptable to a number of different endstation configurations, enabling spectroscopy of air-sensitive, radioactive and vacuum-sensitive (biological) samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"230-233"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869763","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}
Rafael Celestre, Laurène Quénot, Christopher Ninham, Emmanuel Brun, Luca Fardin
{"title":"Review and experimental comparison of speckle-tracking algorithms for X-ray phase contrast imaging.","authors":"Rafael Celestre, Laurène Quénot, Christopher Ninham, Emmanuel Brun, Luca Fardin","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010117","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>X-ray speckles have been used in a wide range of experiments, including imaging (and tomography), wavefront sensing, spatial coherence measurements, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and ptychography. In this review and experimental comparison, we focus on using X-ray near-field speckle grains as wavefront markers and numerical methods for retrieving the phase information they contain. We present the most common tracking methods, introducing the existing algorithms with their specifications and comparing their performances under various experimental conditions. This comparison includes applications to different types of samples: phantoms for quantitative analysis and complex samples for assessing image quality. Our goal is to unify concepts from several speckle tracking methods using consistent terminology and equation formalism, while keeping the discussion didactic and accessible to a broad audience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"180-199"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848155","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}
XianRong Huang, Lahsen Assoufid, Albert T Macrander
{"title":"Reducing heat load density with asymmetric and inclined double-crystal monochromators: principles and requirements revisited.","authors":"XianRong Huang, Lahsen Assoufid, Albert T Macrander","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524009755","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524009755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Asymmetric double-crystal monochromators (aDCMs) and inclined DCMs (iDCMs) can significantly expand the X-ray beam footprint and consequently reduce the heat load density and gradient. Based on rigorous dynamical theory calculations, the major principles and properties of aDCMs and iDCMs are presented to guide their design and development, particularly for fourth-generation synchrotrons. In addition to the large beam footprint, aDCMs have very large bandwidths (up to ∼10 eV) and angular acceptance, but the narrow angular acceptance of the second crystal requires precise control of the relative orientations and strains. Based on Fourier coupled-wave diffraction theory calculations, it is rigorously proved that the iDCM has almost the same properties as the conventional symmetric DCM, including the efficiency, angular acceptance, bandwidth, tuning energy range and sensitivity to misalignment. The exception is that, for the extremely inclined geometry that can achieve very large footprint expansion, the iDCM has (beneficially) a larger bandwidth and wider angular acceptance. Inclined diffraction has the `rho-kick effect' that can be cancelled by the second reflection of the iDCM (even with misalignment), except that inhomogeneous strains may cause non-uniform rho-kick angles. At present, fabrication/mounting-induced strains pose low risk since they can be controlled to <0.5 µrad over large areas. The only uncertain challenge is the thermally induced strains, yet it is estimated that these strains are naturally lowered by the large footprint and may be further mitigated by optimized cryogenic cooling to the 1-2 µrad level. Overall, aDCMs and iDCMs have more stringent requirements than normal DCMs, but they are feasible schemes in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"90-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708841/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677491","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":"Development and testing of a dual-frequency real-time hardware feedback system for the hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline of the SSRF.","authors":"Zhisen Jiang, Hui Jiang, Yinghua He, Yan He, Dongxu Liang, Huaina Yu, Aiguo Li, Riccardo Signorato","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010208","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A novel dual-frequency real-time feedback system has been developed to simultaneously optimize and stabilize beam position and energy at the hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility. A user-selected cut-off frequency is used to separate the beam position signal obtained from an X-ray beam position monitor into two parts, i.e. high-frequency and low-frequency components. They can be real-time corrected and optimized by two different optical components, one chromatic and the other achromatic, of very different inertial mass, such as Bragg monochromator dispersive elements and a pre-focusing total external reflection mirror. The experimental results shown in this article demonstrate a significant improvement in position and energy stabilities. The long-term beam angular stability clearly improved from 2.21 to 0.92 µrad RMS in the horizontal direction and from 0.72 to 0.10 µrad RMS in the vertical direction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"100-108"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789662","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}
Miller Shatsala, Stellah Wanyonyi, Celline Awino, Maxwell Mageto, Hussein Golicha
{"title":"Comparative study of crystallization kinetics and phase segregation of triple cation and methylammonium lead iodide perovskites on moisture probing using synchrotron X-ray based radiation.","authors":"Miller Shatsala, Stellah Wanyonyi, Celline Awino, Maxwell Mageto, Hussein Golicha","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010695","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>3D mixed perovskites have achieved substantial success in boosting solar cell efficiency, but the complicated perovskite crystal formation pathway remains mysterious. Here we present detailed crystallization kinetics of mixed perovskites FA<sub>0.83</sub>MA<sub>0.17</sub>Pb(I<sub>0.83</sub>Br<sub>0.17</sub>)<sub>3</sub>, where FA is formamidinium and MA is methylammonium, with the addition of Cs<sup>+</sup> to form a triple cation perovskite (3-CAT), in a comparison with the perovskite building block MAPbI<sub>3</sub> (MAPI) via static grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) and micro-diffraction measurements. Spin-coated films produced α-perovskite peaks with no PbI<sub>2</sub> or δ-intermediate phases, which was a promising result for the 3-CAT perovskite from micro-diffraction measurements. However, the 3-CAT did not remain stable on probing with varied relative humidity (RH) conditions as segregation back to the δ-intermediate and PbI<sub>2</sub> phase after 10 s of exposure to an RH value of 11% was found to occur from the GIWAXS results. When RH levels were elevated to over 100%, segregation peaks of PbI<sub>2</sub> and δ-intermediate (2H, 4H and 6H) became conspicuous as the α-phase intensity diminished, unlike for MAPI that remains relatively stable. The possible cause of this is hydrophilic bonds that form between the 3-CAT crystals and the small annealing window of the best composition perovskite (5% Cs<sup>+</sup>) film.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"145-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708861/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848115","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":"Cylindrically bent Laue analyzer in an X-ray Raman/emission spectrometer: performance tests and a comparison with spherically bent Bragg analyzers.","authors":"Nozomu Hiraoka","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010634","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010634","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The performances of a spherically bent Bragg analyzer and a cylindrically bent Laue analyzer in an X-ray Raman/emission spectrometer are compared. The reflectivity and energy resolution are evaluated from the intensity of the elastic scattering and the width of the energy distribution on a SiO<sub>2</sub> glass sample. Widely used, Bragg analyzers display excellent performance at the photon energy E ≤ 10 keV. However, at higher E, the reflectivity and the resolution gradually deteriorate as E increases, showing poor performance above 20 keV. On the other hand, the reflectivity of the Laue analyzer gradually increases at E > 10 keV, displaying excellent reflectivity and good resolution around 20 keV. The Laue analyzer is suitable for X-ray absorption spectroscopy in high-energy-resolution fluorescence-detection mode or X-ray emission spectroscopy on 4d transition metal compounds. Furthermore, the X-ray Raman features of the lithium K-edge in LiF and the oxygen K-edge feature in H<sub>2</sub>O, measured by nine Bragg analyzers (2 m radius) at E ≃ 9.9 keV and by five Laue analyzers (1.4 m radius) at E ≃ 19.5 keV, have been compared. Similar count rates and resolutions are observed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708860/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142789661","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}
Jayanath C P Koliyadu, Daniel Moško, Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Valerio Bellucci, Šarlota Birnšteinová, Richard Bean, Romain Letrun, Chan Kim, Henry Kirkwood, Gabriele Giovanetti, Nerea Jardon, Janusz Szuba, Trey Guest, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Peter Szeles, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Fabian Reuter, Claus Dieter Ohl, Mike Andreas Noack, Francisco Garcia-Moreno, Zuzana Kuglerová-Valdová, Libor Juha, Martin Nikl, Wataru Yashiro, Hitoshi Soyama, Daniel Eakins, Alexander M Korsunsky, Jozef Uličný, Alke Meents, Henry N Chapman, Adrian P Mancuso, Tokushi Sato, Patrik Vagovič
{"title":"Development of MHz X-ray phase contrast imaging at the European XFEL.","authors":"Jayanath C P Koliyadu, Daniel Moško, Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Valerio Bellucci, Šarlota Birnšteinová, Richard Bean, Romain Letrun, Chan Kim, Henry Kirkwood, Gabriele Giovanetti, Nerea Jardon, Janusz Szuba, Trey Guest, Andreas Koch, Jan Grünert, Peter Szeles, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Fabian Reuter, Claus Dieter Ohl, Mike Andreas Noack, Francisco Garcia-Moreno, Zuzana Kuglerová-Valdová, Libor Juha, Martin Nikl, Wataru Yashiro, Hitoshi Soyama, Daniel Eakins, Alexander M Korsunsky, Jozef Uličný, Alke Meents, Henry N Chapman, Adrian P Mancuso, Tokushi Sato, Patrik Vagovič","doi":"10.1107/S160057752400986X","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S160057752400986X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report on recent developments that enable megahertz hard X-ray phase contrast imaging (MHz XPCI) experiments at the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument of the European XFEL facility (EuXFEL). We describe the technical implementation of the key components, including an MHz fast camera and a modular indirect X-ray microscope system based on fast scintillators coupled through a high-resolution optical microscope, which enable full-field X-ray microscopy with phase contrast of fast and irreversible phenomena. The image quality for MHz XPCI data showed significant improvement compared with a pilot demonstration of the technique using parallel beam illumination, which also allows access to up to 24 keV photon energies at the SPB/SFX instrument of the EuXFEL. With these developments, MHz XPCI was implemented as a new method offered for a broad user community (academic and industrial) and is accessible via standard user proposals. Furthermore, intra-train pulse diagnostics with a high few-micrometre spatial resolution and recording up to 128 images of consecutive pulses in a train at up to 1.1 MHz repetition rate is available upstream of the instrument. Together with the diagnostic camera upstream of the instrument and the MHz XPCI setup at the SPB/SFX instrument, simultaneous two-plane measurements for future beam studies and feedback for machine parameter tuning are now possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"17-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677489","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}
Changliang Li, Bocheng Jiang, Chao Feng, Qiang Gu, Zhenghe Bai, Weishi Wan, Qinglei Zhang, Kun Wang
{"title":"Toward a storage ring coherent light source based on an angular dispersion-induced microbunching scheme.","authors":"Changliang Li, Bocheng Jiang, Chao Feng, Qiang Gu, Zhenghe Bai, Weishi Wan, Qinglei Zhang, Kun Wang","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010907","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010907","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The combination of reversible angular dispersion-induced microbunching (ADM) and the rapid damping storage ring provides a storage-ring-based light source with the capability to produce longitudinal coherent radiation with a high repetition rate. This paper presents a prototype design for a test facility based on the study by Jiang et al. [Sci. Rep. (2022), 12, 3325]. The modulation-demodulation section is inserted into a long straight section of the storage ring instead of a bypass line, which poses great challenges for the optimization of the nonlinear dynamics of the storage ring. However, this design avoids the challenging injection and extraction system connecting to the bypass line. To utilize mature laser technology and reduce the difficulty of the reversible ADM lattice design, we use a long-wavelength 1030 nm seed laser. In the simulation, we achieved 20th harmonic radiation with a bunching factor of about 7.2%. The growth rate of vertical emittance and energy spread of the electron beam for a single pass are about 11% and 0.02%, respectively. When the energy of the electron beam is 800 MeV and two sets of damping wigglers are employed, the damping time in the vertical plane is reduced to 8.31 ms. This results in a 438 kHz repetition rate of the coherent radiation at the new equilibrium state.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"82-89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142865851","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}
Gabriel Bernardino, Àngels Calvet-Mirabent, Hector Dejea, Eduard Guasch, Anne Bonnin, Patricia Garcia-Canadilla
{"title":"The use of ethanol as contrast enhancer in synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast imaging leads to heterogeneous myocardial tissue shrinkage: a case report.","authors":"Gabriel Bernardino, Àngels Calvet-Mirabent, Hector Dejea, Eduard Guasch, Anne Bonnin, Patricia Garcia-Canadilla","doi":"10.1107/S1600577524010221","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S1600577524010221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the main limitations of conventional absorption-based X-ray micro-computed tomography imaging of biological samples is the low inherent X-ray contrast of soft tissue. To overcome this limitation, the use of ethanol as contrast agent has been proposed to enhance image contrast of soft tissues through dehydration. Some authors have shown that ethanol shrinks and hardens the tissue too much, also causing small tissue ruptures due to fast dehydration. However, the local tissue deformation occurring as a consequence of tissue dehydration and whether tissue shrinkage can modify myocardial architecture has not been quantified yet. The aim of this paper is to quantify the local myocardial tissue deformation due to ethanol dehydration based on 3D non-rigid registration and perform a detailed characterization of its myocardial tissue organization, before and after ethanol dehydration. A rat adult heart was imaged with synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray phase contrast imaging (X-PCI) three times: before, 9 h after and 342 h after ethanol immersion. The total volume shrinkage as well as changes in the left ventricular myocardial thickness were computed. Then, to determine local deformation of the heart caused by ethanol dehydration, the related 3D tomographic datasets were registered by means of a non-rigid registration algorithm. Finally, changes on the orientation and organization of myocytes were assessed. Our results show that the use of ethanol in synchrotron X-PCI can improve image contrast, but the tissue shrinkage is not homogeneous thus changing the local myocardial organization.</p>","PeriodicalId":48729,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Synchrotron Radiation","volume":" ","pages":"200-209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11708853/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848164","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}