Beamlines | B16 - Case Studies

  • From X-ray grating to X-ray speckle: one global approach of wavefront modulation
    27 Feb 2013
    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 Find out more...
  • Light revolution: Getting the right kind of white light
    09 Nov 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • A role for gold in cancer treatment?
    18 Oct 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • Structural properties of thin layered materials from X-ray standing wave enhanced elastic and inelastic scattering
    02 Jun 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • A planar refractive X-ray lens made of nano-crystalline diamond
    02 Jun 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • Casting of aluminium alloys: understanding semi-solid deformation and failure using in-situ X-ray imaging
    02 Jun 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • Characterization of Medipix3 with synchrotron radiation
    02 Jun 2011
    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 Find out more...
  • Application of kinoform lens for X-ray reflectivity analysis
    02 Nov 2010
    X-ray reflectivity (XRR) is a non-destructive technique widely used for thin layered materials characterization. The brilliance achieved by third generation synchrotron sources, such as Diamond, has opened Find out more...
  • Characterization of monocrystalline diamond films as X-ray detectors
    27 Oct 2010
    Monocrystalline diamond films with several metal contacts were characterized as radiation detectors in terms of responsivity as a function of X-ray energy, uniformity of response as a function of the position, Find out more...
  • Studying grain level deformation in polycrystalline engineering materials – micro-beam Laue and other micro diffraction methods
    13 Oct 2010
    During the past 18 months, we have developed a novel micro-beam Laue diffraction setup on beamline B16 with a dedicated in situ loading capability. This setup has been used to study the evolution of lattice Find out more...
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