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 …

[HTML][HTML] XFELs for structure and dynamics in biology

JCH Spence - IUCrJ, 2017 - scripts.iucr.org
The development and application of the free-electron X-ray laser (XFEL) to structure and
dynamics in biology since its inception in 2009 are reviewed. The research opportunities …

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 …

Correlations in scattered X-ray laser pulses reveal nanoscale structural features of viruses

RP Kurta, JJ Donatelli, CH Yoon, P Berntsen… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We use extremely bright and ultrashort pulses from an x-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) to
measure correlations in x rays scattered from individual bioparticles. This allows us to go …

Recent notable approaches to study self‐assembly of nanoparticles with X‐ray scattering and electron microscopy

F Schulz, I Lokteva, WJ Parak… - Particle & Particle …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) has evolved into a powerful tool for the synthesis of
superstructures with tailored properties. The quality, diversity, and complexity of synthesized …

Monitoring molecular nonadiabatic dynamics with femtosecond X-ray diffraction

K Bennett, M Kowalewski… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Ultrafast time-resolved X-ray scattering, made possible by free-electron laser sources,
provides a wealth of information about electronic and nuclear dynamical processes in …

[PDF][PDF] CAMP@ FLASH: an end-station for imaging, electron-and ion-spectroscopy, and pump–probe experiments at the FLASH free-electron laser

B Erk, JP Müller, C Bomme, R Boll… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
The non-monochromatic beamline BL1 at the FLASH free-electron laser facility at DESY was
upgraded with new transport and focusing optics, and a new permanent end-station, CAMP …

Mathematics for cryo-electron microscopy

A Singer - Proceedings of the International Congress of …, 2018 - World Scientific
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography
and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method for biological …

Ultrafast imaging of molecular dynamics using ultrafast low-frequency lasers, X-ray free electron lasers, and electron pulses

M Zhang, Z Guo, X Mi, Z Li, Y Liu - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The requirement of high space-time resolution and brightness is a great challenge for
imaging atomic motion and making molecular movies. Important breakthroughs in ultrabright …

Macromolecular structures probed by combining single-shot free-electron laser diffraction with synchrotron coherent X-ray imaging

M Gallagher-Jones, Y Bessho, S Kim, J Park… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Nanostructures formed from biological macromolecular complexes utilizing the self-
assembly properties of smaller building blocks such as DNA and RNA hold promise for …