Synchrotron Light for Materials Science

SYMPOSIUM O Synchrotron radiation and materials science

A Dedicated Synchrotron Light Source for Ultrafast X-ray Science*

We describe a proposed femtosecond synchrotron radiation x-ray source based on a flat-beam RF gun and a recirculating superconducting linac that provides beam to an array of undulators and bend magnets. X-ray pulse durations of <100 fs at a 10 kHz repetition rate are obtained by a combination of electron pulse compression, transverse temporal correlation of the electrons, and x-ray pulse compre...

Synchrotron radiation techniques in materials and environmental science.

Synchrotron-based techniques have had, over the last 30 years, a major and profound effect on the study of complex materials and on environmental science. Their ability to obtain accurate information at the atomic and molecular level on both local and longrange structures, together with the increasing ability to undertake time-resolved structural studies, has transformed our understanding of se...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Radiation Facilities for Materials Science

Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, supported by the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, include beam stations at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. The emphasis is on materials characterization at the microstructural and at the ato...

Speciation Techniques and Facilities for Radioactive Materials at Synchrotron Light Sources

The chemistry of the actinide family is surprisingly rich. In order to better understand the affinity of specific chelates as in the case of ionic selective recognition or uptake by specific biomolecules, it is essential to better understand the intramolecular interactions. Although this has long been done for widely investigated transition metals, very few studies have been devoted to complexa...