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The high flux nano-X-ray diffraction, fluorescence and imaging beamline ID27 for science under extreme conditions on the ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source

In this overview article, we present the main features of the upgraded ID27 beamline which is fully optimised to match the exceptional characteristics of the new Extremely Bright Source (EBS) of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The ID27 ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2024

Collimation simulations for the FCC-ee

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

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

Energy-Efficient Particle Accelerators for Research

Mike Seidel

Particle accelerators are the drivers for large-scale research infrastructures for particle physics but also for many branches of condensed matter research. The types of accelerator-driven research infrastructures include particle colliders, neutron, muon ...

2024

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

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Markus Scholz

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

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, Anna Zabilska, Olga Safonova

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

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

Operando XAS insight in the redox dynamics of VOx species and reducible supports involved in oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols

Anna Zabilska

Supported vanadia (VOx) belongs to some of the most versatile selective oxidation and reduction catalysts applied for many reactions in the chemical industry and pollution control. Among them, the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of alcohols is particularly ...

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

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

Operando X-ray diffraction during laser 3D printing

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Steven Van Petegem, Samy Hocine, Nicola Casati

Laser based additive manufacturing allows to build a designed shape layer-by-layer, offering versatility and flexibility to many metallurgical sectors. The fast cooling rates and repeated heat cycles depending on the laser and scanning parameters are not e ...

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

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

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

Micro-focused MHz pink beam for time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy

Andre Al Haddad, Christoph Bostedt

The full radiation from the first harmonic of a synchrotron undulator (between 5 and 12 keV) at the Advanced Photon Source is microfocused using a stack of beryllium compound refractive lenses onto a fast-moving liquid jet and overlapped with a high-repeti ...

2019

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

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

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 Crystallography (IUCr)2019

A teaching showcase unveils the links between special relativity and the birth of quantum physics

Giorgio Margaritondo

Quantum effects scale up with the frequency of electromagnetic waves. Therefore, modern synchrotron sources of high-frequency x-rays-that can be visited by students either personally or online-offer an opportunity for a captivating introduction to basic qu ...

2019

The relativistic foundations of synchrotron radiation

Giorgio Margaritondo

Special relativity (SR) determines the properties of synchrotron radiation, but the corresponding mechanisms are frequently misunderstood. Time dilation is often invoked among the causes, whereas its role would violate the principles of SR. Here it is show ...

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)2017

Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Liquid Samples

José Javier Pancracio Ojeda Andara

This thesis focuses on the commissioning and characterization of HARMONIUM, an ultrafast tunable EUV source based on high-harmonic generation for performing photoelectron spectroscopy of liquids. In ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy a short pump pulse i ...

EPFL2016

Beam Dynamics Studies in Recirculating Machines

Dario Pellegrini

The LHeC and the CLIC Drive Beam share not only the high-current beams that make them prone to show instabilities, but also unconventional lattice topologies and operational schemes in which the time sequence of the bunches varies along the machine. In ord ...

EPFL2016

Crystal structures of eight mono-methyl alkanes (C-26-C-32) via single-crystal and powder diffraction and DFT-D optimization

Philip Pattison

The crystal structures of eight mono-methyl alkanes have been determined from single-crystal or high-resolution powder X-ray diffraction using synchrotron radiation. Mono-methyl alkanes can be found on the cuticles of insects and are believed to act as rec ...

Int Union Crystallography2015