Features and futures of X-ray free-electron lasers

N Huang, H Deng, B Liu, D Wang, Z Zhao - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Linear accelerator-based free-electron lasers (FELs) are the leading source of fully coherent
X-rays with ultra-high peak powers and ultra-short pulse lengths. Current X-ray FEL facilities …

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

M Chergui, M Beye, S Mukamel, C Svetina… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-electron lasers and high-harmonic-generation table-top systems are new sources of
extreme-ultraviolet to hard X-ray photons, providing ultrashort pulses that are intense …

Cascaded hard X-ray self-seeded free-electron laser at megahertz repetition rate

S Liu, C Grech, M Guetg, S Karabekyan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy in the sub-nanosecond to femtosecond time range
requires ultrashort X-ray pulses and a spectral X-ray flux considerably larger than that …

Free-electron Brewster-transition radiation

R Chen, J Chen, Z Gong, X Zhang, X Zhu, Y Yang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We reveal a mechanism to enhance particle-matter interactions by exploiting the pseudo-
Brewster effect of gain materials, presenting an enhancement of at least four orders of …

An X-ray free-electron laser with a highly configurable undulator and integrated chicanes for tailored pulse properties

E Prat, A Al Haddad, C Arrell, S Augustin, M Boll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) are state-of-the-art scientific tools capable to study matter
on the scale of atomic processes. Since the initial operation of X-ray FELs more than a …

Dynamics and mechanism of a light-driven chloride pump

S Mous, G Gotthard, D Ehrenberg, S Sen, T Weinert… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chloride transport by microbial rhodopsins is an essential process for which molecular
details such as the mechanisms that convert light energy to drive ion pum** and ensure …

Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

High-brightness self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser covering the 3.5 keV to 14.6 keV range

I Nam, CK Min, B Oh, G Kim, D Na, YJ Suh, H Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A self-seeded X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) is a promising approach to realize bright, fully
coherent free-electron laser (FEL) sources in the hard X-ray domain that have been a long …

Visualizing the DNA repair process by a photolyase at atomic resolution

M Maestre-Reyna, PH Wang, E Nango, Y Hosokawa… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photolyases, a ubiquitous class of flavoproteins, use blue light to repair DNA photolesions.
In this work, we determined the structural mechanism of the photolyase-catalyzed repair of a …

From femtoseconds to hours—measuring dynamics over 18 orders of magnitude with coherent x-rays

F Lehmkühler, W Roseker, G Grübel - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) enables the study of sample dynamics
between micrometer and atomic length scales. As a coherent scattering technique, it …