Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources

J Miao, T Ishikawa, IK Robinson, MM Murnane - Science, 2015 - science.org
X-ray crystallography has been central to the development of many fields of science over the
past century. It has now matured to a point that as long as good-quality crystals are …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast transmission electron microscopy using a laser-driven field emitter: Femtosecond resolution with a high coherence electron beam

A Feist, N Bach, NR da Silva, T Danz, M Möller… - Ultramicroscopy, 2017 - Elsevier
We present the development of the first ultrafast transmission electron microscope (UTEM)
driven by localized photoemission from a field emitter cathode. We describe the …

Photon beam transport and scientific instruments at the European XFEL

T Tschentscher, C Bressler, J Grünert, A Madsen… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This article describes the layout of the European XFEL, a soft and hard
X-ray free-electron laser user facility starting operation in 2017. Emphasis is put on the …

Topological defect dynamics in operando battery nanoparticles

A Ulvestad, A Singer, JN Clark, HM Cho, JW Kim… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Topological defects can markedly alter nanomaterial properties. This presents opportunities
for “defect engineering,” where desired functionalities are generated through defect …

Map** vibrational surface and bulk modes in a single nanocube

MJ Lagos, A Trügler, U Hohenester, PE Batson - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Imaging of vibrational excitations in and near nanostructures is essential for develo** low-
loss infrared nanophotonics, controlling heat transport in thermal nanodevices,, inventing …

Sequentially timed all-optical map** photography (STAMP)

K Nakagawa, A Iwasaki, Y Oishi, R Horisaki… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
High-speed photography,, is a powerful tool for studying fast dynamics in photochemistry,,
spintronics,, phononics,, fluidics, and plasma physics. Currently, the pump–probe method is …

Serial femtosecond crystallography: the first five years

I Schlichting - IUCrJ, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Protein crystallography using synchrotron radiation sources has had a tremendous impact
on biology, having yielded the structures of thousands of proteins and given detailed insight …

Subwavelength coherent imaging of periodic samples using a 13.5 nm tabletop high-harmonic light source

DF Gardner, M Tanksalvala, ER Shanblatt, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Coherent diffractive imaging is unique, being the only route for achieving high spatial
resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the …

Short-wavelength free-electron laser sources and science: a review

EA Seddon, JA Clarke, DJ Dunning… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is focused on free-electron lasers (FELs) in the hard to soft x-ray regime. The
aim is to provide newcomers to the area with insights into: the basic physics of FELs, the …