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 …

Fast and interpretable classification of small X-ray diffraction datasets using data augmentation and deep neural networks

F Oviedo, Z Ren, S Sun, C Settens, Z Liu… - npj Computational …, 2019 - nature.com
X-ray diffraction (XRD) data acquisition and analysis is among the most time-consuming
steps in the development cycle of novel thin-film materials. We propose a machine learning …

[HTML][HTML] Cheetah: software for high-throughput reduction and analysis of serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data

A Barty, RA Kirian, FRNC Maia, M Hantke… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - scripts.iucr.org
The emerging technique of serial X-ray diffraction, in which diffraction data are collected
from samples flowing across a pulsed X-ray source at repetition rates of 100 Hz or higher …

Rapid identification of X-ray diffraction patterns based on very limited data by interpretable convolutional neural networks

H Wang, Y Xie, D Li, H Deng, Y Zhao… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Large volumes of data from material characterizations call for rapid and automatic data
analysis to accelerate materials discovery. Herein, we report a convolutional neural network …

Ultra-fast and ultra-intense x-ray sciences: first results from the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser

C Bostedt, JD Bozek, PH Bucksbaum… - Journal of Physics B …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) produce femtosecond x-ray pulses with unprecedented
intensities that are uniquely suited for studying many phenomena in atomic, molecular, and …

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 …

Emerging opportunities in structural biology with X-ray free-electron lasers

I Schlichting, J Miao - Current opinion in structural biology, 2012 - Elsevier
X-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs) produce X-ray pulses with extremely brilliant peak
intensity and ultrashort pulse duration. It has been proposed that radiation damage can be …

3D diffractive imaging of nanoparticle ensembles using an x-ray laser

K Ayyer, PL Xavier, J Bielecki, Z Shen, BJ Daurer… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Single particle imaging at x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) has the potential to determine
the structure and dynamics of single biomolecules at room temperature. Two major hurdles …

Low-signal limit of X-ray single particle diffractive imaging

K Ayyer, AJ Morgan, A Aquila, H DeMirci, BG Hogue… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
An outstanding question in X-ray single particle imaging experiments has been the
feasibility of imaging sub 10-nm-sized biomolecules under realistic experimental conditions …