X-ray Birefringence in highly Anisotropic Materials

Birefringence and polarization rotation in resonant x-ray diffraction

The mechanism of eutectic growth in highly anisotropic materials

In the past 50 years, there has been increasing interest-both theoretically and experimentally-in the problem of pattern formation of a moving boundary, such as a solidification front. One example of pattern formation is that of irregular eutectic solidification, in which the solid-liquid interface is non-isothermal and the interphase spacing varies in ways that are poorly understood. Here, we ...

X-ray microtomography of materials

shapes. destructively and with spatial resolution which can approach that of optical microscopy (typically, no After presenting the author’s perspective of the better than 1 mm in samples whose cross-sectional development of microtomography, imaging, X-ray diameter is on the order of 1 mm, and 10 mm for attenuation, and the physical concepts underlying 10 mm specimens). First, X-ray computed to...

Optical birefringence imaging of x-ray excited lithium tantalate

X-ray absorption in lithium tantalate induces large, long-lived (∼10 5 s) optical birefringence, visualized via scanning optical polarimetry. Similar birefringence measured from glass, sapphire, and quartz was two orders of magnitude weaker; much of this reduction can be accounted for by their smaller cross section for x-ray absorption. While x-ray induced charges can perturb local refractive i...

Micro X-ray fluorescence in materials characterization

Micro X-ray fluorescence ~MXRF! offers the analyst a new approach to materials characterization. The range of applications is expanding rapidly. Single point analysis has been demonstrated for nanoliter volumes with detection limits at the 0.5 ng level. MXRF can be used as an element specific detector for capillary electrophoresis. Elemental imaging applications include analysis of sample corro...