Time‐resolved doubly bent crystal x‐ray spectrometer

Determination of Crystallite Size with the XRay Spectrometer

Photonic crystal spectrometer.

We demonstrate a new kind of optical spectrometer employing photonic crystal patterns to outcouple waveguided light from a transparent substrate. This spectrometer consists of an array of photonic crystal patterns, nanofabricated in a polymer on a glass substrate, combined with a camera. The camera captures an image of the light outcoupled from the patterned substrate; the array of patterns pro...

Mineralogy of volcanic rocks in Gusev Crater, Mars: Reconciling Mssbauer, Alpha Particle XRay Spectrometer, and Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer spectra

[1] Complete sets of mineral abundances for relatively unaltered volcanic or volcaniclastic rocks in Gusev Crater have been determined by modeling Mössbauer subspectral areas as mineral weight percentages, and combining those percentages with the proportions of iron-free minerals not detected by Mössbauer (normative plagioclase, apatite, and chromite, as calculated from Alpha Particle X-Ray Spe...

Liquid crystal fibers of bent-core molecules.

Although the liquid-crystal research is well established in science, there are newly emerging exciting systems, that deserve extensive basic studies. One of these areas is the research of the bent-shaped molecules (so-called "banana liquid crystals"), which have delicate chirality and polarity properties. In this paper we show that these materials also have very unusual rheological features, su...

Coherent bremsstrahlung in a bent crystal

At passage of an ultra-high-energy particle through a bent crystal coherent bremsstrahlung is emitted but with characteristic frequencies distributed continuously, in relation with the crystal bend profile. For practical crystals, such radiation can be calculated by the stationary phase approximation technique. The radiation spectrum averaged over the impact parameters is evaluated. Its charact...