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Milica Rakic, Tatiana Pieloni, Guillaume Clément Broggi, Giovanni Iadarola, Félix Simon Carlier

The collimation system of the Future Circular Collider, operating with leptons (FCC-ee), must protect not only the experiments against backgrounds, but also the machine itself from beam losses. With a 17.8 MJ stored energy of the electron and positron beam ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

A compact approach to higher-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering detection using photoelectrons

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

The detection of inelastically scattered soft x-rays with high energy resolution usually requires large grating spectrometers. Recently, photoelectron spectrometry for analysis of x-rays (PAX) has been rediscovered for modern spectroscopy experiments at sy ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

SYNAPSE: An international roadmap to large brain imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo

Since 2020, synchrotron radiation facilities in several Asia-Pacific countries have been collaborating in a major project called "SYNAPSE"(Synchrotrons for Neuroscience: an Asia-Pacific Scientific Enterprise). They use x-ray imaging to attack in a coordina ...

ELSEVIER2022

Beware of beam damage under reaction conditions: X-ray induced photochemical reduction of supported VOx catalysts during in situ XAS experiments

Oliver Kröcher, Davide Ferri, Olga Safonova, Anna Zabilska

In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a powerful technique for the investigation of heterogeneous catalysts and electrocatalysts. The obtained XAS spectra are usually interpreted from the point of view of the investigated chemical processes, there ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Observational signatures of galactic turbulent dynamos

Salim Bennouna, Abhijit Bhausaheb Bendre

We analyse the observational signatures of galactic magnetic fields that are self-consistently generated in magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium through turbulence driven by supernova (SN) explosions and differential rotation. In part ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Spectroscopy and dynamics at liquid water interfaces

Bruno Credidio

This thesis is a detailed description of three experimental investigations on aqueous interfaces. All projects made use of the microjet technology or the more recently developed flat-jet technique which enables the implementation of liquid water in vacuum ...

EPFL2022

Synchrotron Radiation and Sensors: A History of Synergies

Giorgio Margaritondo

Synchrotron radiation has emerged over more than one-half century as a gigantic worldwide enterprise involving tens of thousands of researchers. Its history has been continuously and strongly linked to the technical progress of sensors. We review here diff ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Tomographic reconstruction of the runaway distribution function in TCV using multispectral synchrotron images

Basil Duval, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek

Synchrotron radiation observed in a quiescent Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) runaway discharge is studied using filtered camera images targeting three distinct wavelength intervals. Through the tomographic simultaneous algebraic reconstruction tech ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Novel photoelectric material of perovskite-like (CH3)(3)SPbI3 nanorod arrays with high stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Wei Liu

Organometallic halide perovskite materials make great achievements in optoelectronic fields, especially in solar cells, in which the organic cations contain amine components. However, the amine with N-H bonds is easily hydrolyzed with moisture in the air, ...

2021

Crystallization kinetics of atomic crystals revealed by a single-shot and single-particle X-ray diffraction experiment

Christoph Bostedt

Crystallization is a fundamental natural phenomenon and the ubiquitous physical process in materials science for the design of new materials. So far, experimental observations of the structural dynamics in crystallization have been mostly restricted to slo ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Real- and Q-space travelling: multi-dimensional distribution maps of crystal-lattice strain (epsilon(044)) and tilt of suspended monolithic silicon nanowire structures

Yusuf Leblebici, Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann, Zuhal Tasdemir

Silicon nanowire-based sensors find many applications in micro- and nano-electromechanical systems, thanks to their unique characteristics of flexibility and strength that emerge at the nanoscale. This work is the first study of this class of micro- and na ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Beam induced vacuum effects in the future circular hadron collider beam vacuum chamber

Lotta Maria Mether

EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study of a post-LHC, Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) with 50 TeV of beam energy and 100 km long, which aims to expand the current energy and luminosity frontiers. The vacuum chamber of the FCC-hh will have to cope ...

2020

Design of the future circular hadron collider beam vacuum chamber

Lotta Maria Mether

EuroCirCol is a conceptual design study of a post-LHC, Future Circular Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) which aims to expand the current energy and luminosity frontiers. The vacuum chamber of this 100 TeV, 100 km collider, will have to cope with unprecedented leve ...

2020

Electron Cloud and Synchrotron Radiation characterization of technical surfaces with the Large Hadron Collider Vacuum Pilot Sector

Elena Buratin

This PhD thesis presents the experimental study on electron cloud (EC) and synchrotron radiation (SR) phenomena affecting the LHC storage ring performance. These phenomena are one of the major issues of the LHC storage ring, generating beam instabilities, ...

EPFL2020

A synchrotron X-ray imaging strategy to map large animal brains

Giorgio Margaritondo

Mapping the large neural networks of animal and human brains is a fundamental but so far elusive task, because of the massive amount of data and the consequent prohibitively long image taking and processing times. We developed an effective strategy called ...

2020

Operando X-ray diffraction during laser 3D printing: from machine design to experiments and computer simulations

Samy Hocine

The importance of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, has grown exponentially in the recent years thanks to its high flexibility to manufacture intricate parts. This process can be divided into many different sub-categories, depending on the ...

EPFL2020

Synthesis, Characterisation and Crystal structure of a New Cu(II)-carboxamide Complex and CuO nanoparticles as New Catalysts in the CuAAC reaction and Investigation of their Antibacterial activity

Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Kurt Schenk

The bidentate carboxamide ligand N-(thiazole-2-yl) picolinamide (LH) was synthesized in the environmentally friendly ionic liquid TBAB, and the five-coordinated Cu-II-complex, [Cu(L)(2)(H2O)]center dot CHCl3 (1) was synthesized from LH and copper(II)acetat ...

2020

Effects of X-rays on Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Jérémie Werner, Björn Niesen, Yun Luo

Synchrotron micro- and nanoprobe beamlines have demonstrated great potential to advance photovoltaic devices. Most importantly, their small X-ray spot size has enabled the direct correlation of electrical performance with elemental composition at subgrain ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Characterizing crystalline defects in single nanoparticles from angular correlations of single-shot diffracted X-rays

Christoph Bostedt

Characterizing and controlling the uniformity of nanoparticles is crucial for their application in science and technology because crystalline defects in the nanoparticles strongly affect their unique properties. Recently, ultra-short and ultra-bright X-ray ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Pressure-induced transformation of CH3NH3PbI3: the role of the noble-gas pressure transmitting media

László Forró, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Bálint Náfrádi, Endre Horvath, Alla Arakcheeva, Márton Kollár, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Anastasiia Glushkova

The photovoltaic perovskite, methylammonium lead triiodide [CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI(3))], is one of the most efficient materials for solar energy conversion. Various kinds of chemical and physical modifications have been applied to MAPbI(3) towards better unders ...

International Union of Crystallography2019