Taking a step toward much-coveted flexible electronics, an international research team that figured out how to coat an organic material as a thin film - like spreading butter on toast - wanted a closer look at why their spreadable organic semiconductor grew like it did... more »
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Can x-ray pictures that are almost empty be used to reconstruct physical models? Many forward-thinking scientists at synchrotron and newer free-electron laser x-ray facilities are hoping that someday scientists will be able to determine the structure of a single molecule using x-ray... more »
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Imagine walking into a room full of young school children huddled around tables with an adult volunteer, Styrofoam balls being flung intentionally into the air, and students delightedly observing, measuring and recording their results... more »
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We have developed a device that combines two functionalities in a compact assembly to measure simultaneously the X-ray beam position and intensity... more »
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A new load frame / diffractometer has been commissioned at CHESS for X-ray diffraction experiments on engineering materials during in-situ mechanical testing. The system was designed with flexibility in mind... more »
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It is well known that delivery of undistorted laser beams requires superior optics. To a much more demanding degree, delivery of highly coherent ERL x-ray beams from source to experiment requires small wavefront distortion over the whole beam... more »
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CHESS has a unique drawing tower facility to fabricate glass capillaries that can be used in a variety of settings to focus or prefocus x-ray beams down to micron-level sizes... more »
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