Recent years have seen significant progress in the field of soft-and hard-X-ray microscopy,
both technically, through developments in source, optics and imaging methodologies, and …

Since the middle of the 1990s, X-ray phase imaging including phase tomography has been
attracting increasing attention. The advantage of X-ray phase imaging is that an extremely …

Spectroscopic approaches to plant and soil sciences have provided important information
for several decades. However, many of these approaches suffered from a number of …

The current status of the TwinMic beamline at Elettra synchrotron light source, that hosts the
European twin X-ray microscopy station, is reported. The X-ray source, provided by a short …

Substantial improvements in the nanofabrication and characteristics of gold Fresnel zone
plates yielded unprecedented resolution levels in hard-x-ray microscopy. Tests performed …

Advances in microscopy techniques based on x-rays have opened unprecedented
opportunities in terms of spatial resolution, combined with chemical and morphology …

In this volume, six review articles which cover a broad range of topics of current interest in
modern optics are included. The first article by S. Saltiel, AA Sukhorukov and YS Kivshar …

Numerous advances have been made in X-ray technology in recent years. X-ray imaging
plays an important role in the nondestructive exploration of the internal structures of objects …

Using dedicated contrast agents high-quality X-ray imaging of soft tissue structures with
isotropic micrometre resolution has become feasible. This technique is frequently titled as …

Novel low-energy X-ray fluorescence (LEXRF) system based on a multiple Si drift detector
(SDD) configuration has been developed and implemented in the European TwinMic X-ray …