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<\/a><\/p>\nThe blue glow of the synchrotron radiation (AW 2020)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Light source 101<\/h3>\nFor the ALS User Meeting<\/a> this year (held remotely), Fanny Rodolakis<\/strong> and Monika Blum<\/strong> organized a new edition of the Light Source 101 workshop<\/a>, where beamline scientists from the Advanced Light Source explain their science. Luckily, these talks where recorded (they are available as bulk here), and I have edited them in sizeable, 30-min chunks about most of the cool techniques we offer.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
They should soon be available on Youtube, but here they are in exclusivity:<\/div>\n\n- A tour of the Advanced Light Source<\/a><\/li>\n
- ALS Proposal User Guide<\/a><\/li>\n
- “The Machine” (Ring-based synchrotron Light Sources)<\/a><\/li>\n
- ALS Soft X-Ray XAS and RIXS<\/a><\/li>\n
- Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Resonant X-Ray Scattering<\/a><\/li>\n
- X-Ray Diffraction at non-ambient conditions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Synchrotron Infrared, What is it good for?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Micro Computed Tomography<\/a><\/li>\n
- XPEEM LS101 (X-Ray Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n
- ARPES@ALS 101 (Angle-Resolved Photo-Emission Spectroscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n
- XPCS (X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
XPCS<\/h3>
Two years ago, Mark Sutton<\/strong> was invited at SLAC National Lab as a visiting scholar and graced us with a series of lecture on XPCS. Since I cannot find them online (but the recording are available), you can find the full course here:<\/p>X-Rays and coherence (Mark Sutton):<\/p>\n\n- Lecture 1: Using coherent x-rays to study disordered materials<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 2: Mutual Coherence Functions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 3: Optics and Mutual Coherence Functions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 4: XPCS progress and results in CDI<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 5: Probabilities, XSVS and split-pulse XPCS<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 6: Beyond simple g2(t)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 7: Some quantum pieces<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Books and references on synchrotron radiation<\/h3>\nIf you’re interested in learning about how synchrotrons themselves work, either because you’re working on a beamline and want to understand better of the magic works or because you’re about to build new beamlines for fourth generation synchrotrons, here’s a few book I recommend on the topic (with links to the Berkeley library if they exist, in case you happen to have access):<\/div>\n\n- The Science and Technology of Undulators and Wigglers<\/a> – James Clarke, 2007 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Undulators, Wigglers and Their Applications<\/a> \u2013 P. Elleaume 2020 (no Berkeley access)<\/li>\n
- Gratings, Mirrors and Slits: Beamline Design for Soft X-Ray<\/a> \u2013 W.B Peatman, 1997 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation<\/a> \u2013 David Attwood, 2012 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Elements of Modern X-ray Physics<\/a> \u2013Jens Als-Nielsen, 2011 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>
I found all these book interesting and complementary (I would rather read the Clarke over the Elleaume, and the Attwood over the Als-Nielsen, but perhaps because I deal with softer x-rays.)<\/p>For the interested reader, it might also be useful to look at how things work in electron microscopy. A good reference would be this one:<\/p>\n
\n- Transmission Electron Microscopy<\/a> \u2013 Ludwig Reimer, 2008 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>
ESRF Online seminars<\/strong><\/p>I find that the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Youtube channel<\/a> offers a bunch of great talks on state-of-the art x-ray science (more in hard x-rays, but extremely cool nonetheless.)<\/p>\n
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- A tour of the Advanced Light Source<\/a><\/li>\n
- ALS Proposal User Guide<\/a><\/li>\n
- “The Machine” (Ring-based synchrotron Light Sources)<\/a><\/li>\n
- ALS Soft X-Ray XAS and RIXS<\/a><\/li>\n
- Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Resonant X-Ray Scattering<\/a><\/li>\n
- X-Ray Diffraction at non-ambient conditions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Synchrotron Infrared, What is it good for?<\/a><\/li>\n
- Micro Computed Tomography<\/a><\/li>\n
- XPEEM LS101 (X-Ray Photo-Emission Electron Microscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n
- ARPES@ALS 101 (Angle-Resolved Photo-Emission Spectroscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n
- XPCS (X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
XPCS<\/h3>
Two years ago, Mark Sutton<\/strong> was invited at SLAC National Lab as a visiting scholar and graced us with a series of lecture on XPCS. Since I cannot find them online (but the recording are available), you can find the full course here:<\/p>X-Rays and coherence (Mark Sutton):<\/p>\n
- \n
- Lecture 1: Using coherent x-rays to study disordered materials<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 2: Mutual Coherence Functions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 3: Optics and Mutual Coherence Functions<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 4: XPCS progress and results in CDI<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 5: Probabilities, XSVS and split-pulse XPCS<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 6: Beyond simple g2(t)<\/a><\/li>\n
- Lecture 7: Some quantum pieces<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Books and references on synchrotron radiation<\/h3>\n
If you’re interested in learning about how synchrotrons themselves work, either because you’re working on a beamline and want to understand better of the magic works or because you’re about to build new beamlines for fourth generation synchrotrons, here’s a few book I recommend on the topic (with links to the Berkeley library if they exist, in case you happen to have access):<\/div>\n- \n
- The Science and Technology of Undulators and Wigglers<\/a> – James Clarke, 2007 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Undulators, Wigglers and Their Applications<\/a> \u2013 P. Elleaume 2020 (no Berkeley access)<\/li>\n
- Gratings, Mirrors and Slits: Beamline Design for Soft X-Ray<\/a> \u2013 W.B Peatman, 1997 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Soft X-Rays and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation<\/a> \u2013 David Attwood, 2012 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n
- Elements of Modern X-ray Physics<\/a> \u2013Jens Als-Nielsen, 2011 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>
I found all these book interesting and complementary (I would rather read the Clarke over the Elleaume, and the Attwood over the Als-Nielsen, but perhaps because I deal with softer x-rays.)<\/p>For the interested reader, it might also be useful to look at how things work in electron microscopy. A good reference would be this one:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Transmission Electron Microscopy<\/a> \u2013 Ludwig Reimer, 2008 (Berkeley Library full access<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>
ESRF Online seminars<\/strong><\/p>I find that the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Youtube channel<\/a> offers a bunch of great talks on state-of-the art x-ray science (more in hard x-rays, but extremely cool nonetheless.)<\/p>\n
- Undulators, Wigglers and Their Applications<\/a> \u2013 P. Elleaume 2020 (no Berkeley access)<\/li>\n
- Lecture 2: Mutual Coherence Functions<\/a><\/li>\n
- ALS Proposal User Guide<\/a><\/li>\n
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