Starting from the late seventies, the progressively increased availability of synchrotron light
sources allowed the execution of experiments requiring a high X-ray flux in a continuous …

X-ray microbeams are an emerging characterization tool with broad implications for science,
ranging from materials structure and dynamics, to geophysics and environmental science, to …

In recent years synchrotron x-ray microprobes and nanoprobes have emerged as key
characterization tools with a remarkable impact for different scientific fields including solid …

In response to the conjecture that the numerical aperture of x-ray optics is fundamentally
limited by the critical angle of total reflection [Bergemann et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 204801 …

Studies of materials on mesoscopic length‐scales require a penetrating structural probe with
submicron point‐to‐point spatial resolution. The principle research activities at beamline 34 …

Refraction through curved surfaces, reflection from curved mirrors in grazing incidence, and
diffraction from Fresnel zone plates are key hard x-ray focusing mechanisms. In this article …

Synchrotron X-ray microdiffraction provides quantitative structural measurements with
submicron spatial resolution, and hence enables investigations of how local microstructural …

Synchrotron based x-ray microscopy established itself as a prominent tool for noninvasive
investigations in many areas of science and technology. Many facilities around the world …

Owing to the spatial resolution and sensitivity (ie, signal-to-background ratio), nano-and
micro-X-ray beams are emerging tools with a strong impact in materials science. Although …

Measuring the deviation of a wavefront from a sphere provides valuable feedback on lens
alignment and manufacturing errors. We demonstrate that these aberrations can be …