Creating coherent x-rays and putting them to use: X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy at beamline 8-1d at the advanced photon source |
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| Authors: | L. B. Lurio D. Lumma M. A. Borthwick P. Falus S. G. J. Mochrie J. F. Pelletier |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Materials Science and Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139-4307;2. Center for the Physics of Materials, Department of Physics , McGill University , Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T8, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) entered a new era of synchrotron radiation experimentation in March 2004 with the start of the first experimental run following the completion of the SPEAR3 upgrade project [1]. Intense X-rays at the macromolecular crystallography stations, combined with state-of-the-art equipment, including high-speed CCD detectors and sophisticated control system software, now enable high-quality diffraction images to be collected in only a few seconds and entire crystallography datasets in a matter of minutes. With significant reduction in the time required to collect a dataset, the period necessary to enter the experimental hutch to manually mount and dismount crystal samples is often a significant percentage of the users' total beam time allocation. |
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