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 …

Structure and dynamics of monohydroxy alcohols—Milestones towards their microscopic understanding, 100 years after Debye

R Böhmer, C Gainaru, R Richert - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
In 1913 Debye devised a relaxation model for application to the dielectric properties of water
and alcohols. These hydrogen-bonded liquids continue to be studied extensively because …

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 …

Recent experimental and theoretical developments in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies

CJ Milne, TJ Penfold, M Chergui - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Capturing the evolving geometric and electronic structure in the course of a chemical
reaction or biological process is the principal aim of time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies …

[HTML][HTML] A liquid flatjet system for solution phase soft-x-ray spectroscopy

M Ekimova, W Quevedo, M Faubel, P Wernet… - Structural …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We present a liquid flatjet system for solution phase soft-x-ray spectroscopy. The flatjet set-
up utilises the phenomenon of formation of stable liquid sheets upon collision of two …

Probing the oxidation state of transition metal complexes: a case study on how charge and spin densities determine Mn L-edge X-ray absorption energies

M Kubin, M Guo, T Kroll, H Löchel, E Källman… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Transition metals in inorganic systems and metalloproteins can occur in different oxidation
states, which makes them ideal redox-active catalysts. To gain a mechanistic understanding …

Stimulated X-ray emission for materials science

M Beye, S Schreck, F Sorgenfrei, C Trabant, N Pontius… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and X-ray emission spectroscopy can be used to probe
the energy and dispersion of the elementary low-energy excitations that govern functionality …

Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography

U Weierstall - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
X-ray free-electron lasers overcome the problem of radiation damage in protein
crystallography and allow structure determination from micro-and nanocrystals at room …

Compatibility of quantitative X-ray spectroscopy with continuous distribution models of water at ambient conditions

J Niskanen, M Fondell, CJ Sahle… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The phase diagram of water harbors controversial views on underlying structural properties
of its constituting molecular moieties, its fluctuating hydrogen-bonding network, as well as …

Viewing the valence electronic structure of ferric and ferrous hexacyanide in solution from the Fe and cyanide perspectives

K Kunnus, W Zhang, MG Delcey… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The valence-excited states of ferric and ferrous hexacyanide ions in aqueous solution were
mapped by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Fe L2, 3 and NK edges. Probing …