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X-ray holography using area detectors

Andrea Lausi 

Sinchrotrone Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Abstract

The atomic and molecular structures of crystalline substances can be mostly solved by means of electron and x-ray diffraction. In contrast to the diffraction, holographic imaging does not require translation periodicity and can be, in principle, applied also to non-crystalline samples (e.g. quasicrystals, doped systems, amorphous materials). Moreover reconstruction algorithms can also be applied to the scattering signal, allowing information on electron-density to be recovered using a single two-dimensional x-ray pattern. The fact that all the data needed can be collected in one shot has important practical consequences; reduced exposure time can resolve the problem of radiation damage of specimens and opens new possibilities for studies of fast processes in three dimensions.

 

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Presentation: invited oral at E-MRS Fall Meeting 2004, Symposium D, by Andrea Lausi
See On-line Journal of E-MRS Fall Meeting 2004

Submitted: 2004-04-14 11:34
Revised:   2009-06-08 12:55