Synchrotron X-ray analytical techniques for studying materials electrochemistry in rechargeable batteries

F Lin, Y Liu, X Yu, L Cheng, A Singer… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

Emerging X-ray imaging technologies for energy materials

C Cao, MF Toney, TK Sham, R Harder, PR Shearing… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
With the growing need for sustainable energy technologies, advanced characterization
methods become more and more critical for optimizing energy materials and understanding …

A self‐forming composite electrolyte for solid‐state sodium battery with ultralong cycle life

Z Zhang, Q Zhang, J Shi, YS Chu, X Yu… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Replacing organic liquid electrolyte with inorganic solid electrolytes (SE) can potentially
address the inherent safety problems in conventional rechargeable batteries. However, solid …

X-ray focusing with efficient high-NA multilayer Laue lenses

S Bajt, M Prasciolu, H Fleckenstein… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Multilayer Laue lenses are volume diffraction elements for the efficient focusing of X-rays.
With a new manufacturing technique that we introduced, it is possible to fabricate lenses of …

Optimization of overlap uniformness for ptychography

X Huang, H Yan, R Harder, Y Hwu, IK Robinson… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the advantages of imaging with ptychography scans that follow a Fermat
spiral trajectory. This scan pattern provides a more uniform coverage and a higher overlap …

Design and performance of an X-ray scanning microscope at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline of NSLS-II

E Nazaretski, H Yan, K Lauer, N Bouet… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.iucr.org
A hard X-ray scanning microscope installed at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline of the
National Synchrotron Light Source II has been designed, constructed and commissioned …

X‐Ray microscopy of halide perovskites: techniques, applications, and prospects

M Kodur, RE Kumar, Y Luo, DN Cakan… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray microscopy can provide unique chemical, electronic, and structural insights into
perovskite materials and devices leveraging bright, tunable synchrotron X‐ray sources. Over …

Multimodal hard x-ray imaging with resolution approaching 10 nm for studies in material science

H Yan, N Bouet, J Zhou, X Huang, E Nazaretski… - Nano …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report multimodal scanning hard x-ray imaging with spatial resolution approaching 10
nm and its application to contemporary studies in the field of material science. The high …

Fly-scan ptychography

X Huang, K Lauer, JN Clark, W Xu, E Nazaretski… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We report an experimental ptychography measurement performed in fly-scan mode. With a
visible-light laser source, we demonstrate a 5-fold reduction of data acquisition time. By …

Hard x-ray nanofocusing by multilayer Laue lenses

H Yan, R Conley, N Bouet, YS Chu - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Multilayer Laue lens (MLL) is a new class of x-ray optics that offer great promise for
achieving nanometre-level spatial resolution by focusing hard x-rays. Fabricating an MLL via …