A series of significant advances in our acquisition and analysis of total scattering measurements at the Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector (BXDS) of the Canadian Light Source has enabled atomic pair distribution functions (PDF) of unprecedented quality and sensitivity along with simultaneous high-resolution powder diffraction for Rietveld analysis. We have also managed to...
A new fourth generation of synchrotrons are currently coming on-line. The main improvement generated by these sources is an increase in coherence by two orders of magnitude. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) is a technique that uses the coherence properties of x-rays to give detailed information about structural fluctuations and their dynamics at nanometer and shorter length...
The outer electrons in matter govern nearly all properties of materials including bonding, structure, magnetism, band gap, heat-, electrical- and superconductivity, and optical properties to name a few. The binding energies of these outer electrons reside in the soft X-ray range. Tuning the energy of synchrotron radiation to specific orbitals allows accessing these outer electrons and hence...
