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 advent of high-flux, high-brilliance synchrotron radiation (SR) has prompted the
development of high-resolution X-ray imaging techniques such as full-field microscopy …

This paper describes a tunable X-ray focusing apparatus, referred to as a transfocator,
based on compound refractive lenses. By varying the number of lenses in the beam, the X …

A new end station for high energy (30–70 keV) X-ray diffraction experiments with nano-focus
(150–500 nm) beam sizes has been installed at beamline ID11 at the ESRF. We review …

A tremendous progress in X-ray optics development was made in the past decade. Progress
has been driven by the unique properties of X-ray beams produced by third generation …

Optimizing the lens design and improving the technological process, we manufactured X-ray
planar compound refractive lenses with vertical sidewalls up to 70 microns deep. The lens …

A two-step focusing set-up combining a Fresnel zone plate with an ellipsoidal capillary is
presented. It is shown that, in addition to the anticipated gain in flux, the employment of the …

Stacking technique was developed in order to increase focusing efficiency of Fresnel zone
plates at high energies. Two identical Si chips each of which containing Fresnel zone plates …

A high-flux sub-micrometre focusing system was constructed using multilayer focusing
mirrors in Kirkpatrick–Baez geometry for 100 keV X-rays. The focusing mirror system had a …

Although imaging x‐ray nanotomography developed at beamline BL47XU of SPring‐8 has
reached a spatial resolution less than 200 nm, poor intensity and low signal‐to‐noise ratio …