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Zhou
Shen
,
Paul Lourdu
Xavier
,
Richard
Bean
,
Johan
Bielecki
,
Martin
Bergemann
,
Benedikt
Daurer
,
Tomas
Ekeberg
,
Armando D.
Estillore
,
Hans
Fangohr
,
Klaus
Giewekemeyer
,
Mikhail
Karnevskiy
,
Richard A.
Kirian
,
Henry
Kirkwood
,
Yoonhee
Kim
,
Jayanath C. P.
Koliyadu
,
Holger
Lange
,
Romain
Letrun
,
Jannik
Lübke
,
Abhishek
Mall
,
Thomas
Michelat
,
Andrew J.
Morgan
,
Nils
Roth
,
Amit K.
Samanta
,
Tokushi
Sato
,
Marcin
Sikorski
,
Florian
Schulz
,
Patrik
Vagovic
,
Tamme
Wollweber
,
Lena
Worbs
,
Filipe
Maia
,
Daniel A.
Horke
,
Jochen
Küpper
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Henry
Chapman
,
Kartik
Ayyer
,
N. Duane
Loh
Open Access
Abstract: Nanoparticles, exhibiting functionally relevant structural heterogeneity, are at the forefront of cutting-edge research. Now, high-throughput single-particle imaging (SPI) with X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) creates opportunities for recovering the shape distributions of millions of particles that exhibit functionally relevant structural heterogeneity. To realize this potential, three challenges have to be overcome: (1) simultaneous parametrization of structural variability in real and reciprocal spaces; (2) efficiently inferring the latent parameters of each SPI measurement; (3) scaling up comparisons between 105 structural models and 106 XFEL-SPI measurements. Here, we describe how we overcame these three challenges to resolve the nonequilibrium shape distributions within millions of gold nanoparticles imaged at the European XFEL. These shape distributions allowed us to quantify the degree of asymmetry in these particles, discover a relatively stable “shape envelope” among nanoparticles, discern finite-size effects related to shape-controlling surfactants, and extrapolate nanoparticles’ shapes to their idealized thermodynamic limit. Ultimately, these demonstrations show that XFEL SPI can help transform nanoparticle shape characterization from anecdotally interesting to statistically meaningful.
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May 2024
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Hitoshi
Soyama
,
Xiaoyu
Liang
,
Wataru
Yashiro
,
Kentaro
Kajiwara
,
Eleni Myrto
Asimakopoulou
,
Valerio
Bellucci
,
Sarlota
Birnsteinova
,
Gabriele
Giovanetti
,
Chan
Kim
,
Henry J.
Kirkwood
,
Jayanath C. P.
Koliyadu
,
Romain
Letrun
,
Yuhe
Zhang
,
Jozef
Ulicny
,
Richard
Bean
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Pablo
Villanueva-Perez
,
Tokushi
Sato
,
Patrik
Vagovic
,
Daniel
Eakins
,
Alexander M.
Korsunsky
Open Access
Abstract: Hydrodynamic cavitation is useful in many processing applications, for example, in chemical reactors, water treatment and biochemical engineering. An important type of hydrodynamic cavitation that occurs in a Venturi tube is vortex cavitation known to cause luminescence whose intensity is closely related to the size and number of cavitation events. However, the mechanistic origins of bubbles constituting vortex cavitation remains unclear, although it has been concluded that the pressure fields generated by the cavitation collapse strongly depends on the bubble geometry. The common view is that vortex cavitation consists of numerous small spherical bubbles. In the present paper, aspects of vortex cavitation arising in a Venturi tube were visualized using high-speed X-ray imaging at SPring-8 and European XFEL. It was discovered that vortex cavitation in a Venturi tube consisted of angulated rather than spherical bubbles. The tangential velocity of the surface of vortex cavitation was assessed considering the Rankine vortex model.
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Dec 2023
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Sarlota
Birnsteinova
,
Danilo E.
Ferreira De Lima
,
Egor
Sobolev
,
Henry J.
Kirkwood
,
Valerio
Bellucci
,
Richard J.
Bean
,
Chan
Kim
,
Jayanath C. P.
Koliyadu
,
Tokushi
Sato
,
Fabio
Dall'Antonia
,
Eleni Myrto
Asimakopoulou
,
Zisheng
Yao
,
Khachiwan
Buakor
,
Yuhe
Zhang
,
Alke
Meents
,
Henry N.
Chapman
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Pablo
Villanueva-Perez
,
Patrik
Vagovic
Open Access
Abstract: The high pulse intensity and repetition rate of the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (EuXFEL) provide superior temporal resolution compared with other X-ray sources. In combination with MHz X-ray microscopy techniques, it offers a unique opportunity to achieve superior contrast and spatial resolution in applications demanding high temporal resolution. In both live visualization and offline data analysis for microscopy experiments, baseline normalization is essential for further processing steps such as phase retrieval and modal decomposition. In addition, access to normalized projections during data acquisition can play an important role in decision-making and improve the quality of the data. However, the stochastic nature of X-ray free-electron laser sources hinders the use of standard flat-field normalization methods during MHz X-ray microscopy experiments. Here, an online (i.e. near real-time) dynamic flat-field correction method based on principal component analysis of dynamically evolving flat-field images is presented. The method is used for the normalization of individual X-ray projections and has been implemented as a near real-time analysis tool at the Single Particles, Clusters, and Biomolecules and Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SPB/SFX) instrument of EuXFEL.
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Nov 2023
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Fabian
Reuter
,
Tokushi
Sato
,
Valerio
Bellucci
,
Sarlota
Birnsteinova
,
Carsten
Deiter
,
Jayanath C. P.
Koliyadu
,
Romain
Letrun
,
Pablo
Villanueva-Perez
,
Richard
Bean
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Alke
Meents
,
Patrik
Vagovic
,
Claus-Dieter
Ohl
Open Access
Abstract: The fragmentation dynamics of single water droplets from laser irradiation is studied with megahertz frame rate x-ray microscopy. Owed to the nearly refraction-free and penetrating imaging technique, we could look into the interior of the droplet and reveal that two mechanisms are responsible for the initial explosive fragmentation of the droplet. First, reflection and diffraction of the laser beam at the droplet interface result in the formation of laser ray caustics that lead to non-homogeneous heating of the droplet, locally above the critical temperature. Second, homogeneous cavitation in the droplet that is likely caused from shockwaves reflected as tension waves at the acoustic soft boundaries of the droplet. Further atomization occurs in three stages, first a fine sub-micrometer sized mist forms on the side of the droplet posterior to laser incidence, then micrometer sized droplets are expelled from the rim of an expanding liquid sheet, and finally into droplets of larger size through hole and ligament formation in the thinning liquid sheet where ligaments pinch off.
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Nov 2023
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I13-1-Coherence
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Valerio
Bellucci
,
Marie-Christine
Zdora
,
Ladislav
Mikes
,
Šarlota
Birnšteinová
,
Peter
Oberta
,
Marco
Romagnoni
,
Andrea
Mazzolari
,
Pablo
Villanueva-Perez
,
Rajmund
Mokso
,
Christian
David
,
Mikako
Makita
,
Silvia
Cipiccia
,
Jozef
Ulicny
,
Alke
Meents
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Henry N.
Chapman
,
Patrik
Vagovic
Diamond Proposal Number(s):
[17739]
Open Access
Abstract: The characterisation of fast phenomena at the microscopic scale is required for the understanding of catastrophic responses of materials to loads and shocks, the processing of materials by optical or mechanical means, the processes involved in many key technologies such as additive manufacturing and microfluidics, and the mixing of fuels in combustion. Such processes are usually stochastic in nature and occur within the opaque interior volumes of materials or samples, with complex dynamics that evolve in all three dimensions at speeds exceeding many meters per second. There is therefore a need for the ability to record three-dimensional X-ray movies of irreversible processes with resolutions of micrometers and frame rates of microseconds. Here we demonstrate a method to achieve this by recording a stereo phase-contrast image pair in a single exposure. The two images are combined computationally to reconstruct a 3D model of the object. The method is extendable to more than two simultaneous views. When combined with megahertz pulse trains of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) it will be possible to create movies able to resolve 3D trajectories with velocities of kilometers per second.
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May 2023
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Austin
Echelmeier
,
Jorvani
Cruz Villarreal
,
Marc
Messerschmidt
,
Daihyun
Kim
,
Jesse D.
Coe
,
Darren
Thifault
,
Sabine
Botha
,
Ana
Egatz-Gomez
,
Sahir
Gandhi
,
Gerrit
Brehm
,
Chelsie E.
Conrad
,
Debra T.
Hansen
,
Caleb
Madsen
,
Saša
Bajt
,
J. Domingo
Meza-Aguilar
,
Dominik
Oberthuer
,
Max O.
Wiedorn
,
Holger
Fleckenstein
,
Derek
Mendez
,
Juraj
Knoška
,
Jose M.
Martin-Garcia
,
Hao
Hu
,
Stella
Lisova
,
Aschkai
Allahgoli
,
Yaroslav
Gevorkov
,
Kartik
Ayyer
,
Steve
Aplin
,
Helen M.
Ginn
,
Heinz
Graafsma
,
Andrew J.
Morgan
,
Dominic
Greiffenberg
,
Alexander
Klujev
,
Torsten
Laurus
,
Jennifer
Poehlsen
,
Ulrich
Trunk
,
Davide
Mezza
,
Bernd
Schmitt
,
Manuela
Kuhn
,
Raimund
Fromme
,
Jolanta
Sztuk-Dambietz
,
Natascha
Raab
,
Steffen
Hauf
,
Alessandro
Silenzi
,
Thomas
Michelat
,
Chen
Xu
,
Cyril
Danilevski
,
Andrea
Parenti
,
Leonce
Mekinda
,
Britta
Weinhausen
,
Grant
Mills
,
Patrik
Vagovic
,
Yoonhee
Kim
,
Henry
Kirkwood
,
Richard
Bean
,
Johan
Bielecki
,
Stephan
Stern
,
Klaus
Giewekemeyer
,
Adam
Round
,
Joachim
Schulz
,
Katerina
Dörner
,
Thomas D.
Grant
,
Valerio
Mariani
,
Anton
Barty
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Uwe
Weierstall
,
John C. H.
Spence
,
Henry N.
Chapman
,
Nadia
Zatsepin
,
Petra
Fromme
,
Richard A.
Kirian
,
Alexandra
Ros
Open Access
Abstract: Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) with X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) allows structure determination of membrane proteins and time-resolved crystallography. Common liquid sample delivery continuously jets the protein crystal suspension into the path of the XFEL, wasting a vast amount of sample due to the pulsed nature of all current XFEL sources. The European XFEL (EuXFEL) delivers femtosecond (fs) X-ray pulses in trains spaced 100 ms apart whereas pulses within trains are currently separated by 889 ns. Therefore, continuous sample delivery via fast jets wastes >99% of sample. Here, we introduce a microfluidic device delivering crystal laden droplets segmented with an immiscible oil reducing sample waste and demonstrate droplet injection at the EuXFEL compatible with high pressure liquid delivery of an SFX experiment. While achieving ~60% reduction in sample waste, we determine the structure of the enzyme 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate-8-phosphate synthase from microcrystals delivered in droplets revealing distinct structural features not previously reported.
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Sep 2020
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I03-Macromolecular Crystallography
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Max O.
Wiedorn
,
Dominik
Oberthuer
,
Richard
Bean
,
Robin
Schubert
,
Nadine
Werner
,
Brian
Abbey
,
Martin
Aepfelbacher
,
Luigi
Adriano
,
Aschkan
Allahgholi
,
Nasser
Al-Qudami
,
Jakob
Andreasson
,
Steve
Aplin
,
Salah
Awel
,
Kartik
Ayyer
,
Saša
Bajt
,
Imrich
Barák
,
Sadia
Bari
,
Johan
Bielecki
,
Sabine
Botha
,
Djelloul
Boukhelef
,
Wolfgang
Brehm
,
Sandor
Brockhauser
,
Igor
Cheviakov
,
Matthew A.
Coleman
,
Francisco
Cruz-Mazo
,
Cyril
Danilevski
,
Connie
Darmanin
,
R. Bruce
Doak
,
Martin
Domaracky
,
Katerina
Dörner
,
Yang
Du
,
Hans
Fangohr
,
Holger
Fleckenstein
,
Matthias
Frank
,
Petra
Fromme
,
Alfonso M.
Gañán-Calvo
,
Yaroslav
Gevorkov
,
Klaus
Giewekemeyer
,
Helen Mary
Ginn
,
Heinz
Graafsma
,
Rita
Graceffa
,
Dominic
Greiffenberg
,
Lars
Gumprecht
,
Peter
Göttlicher
,
Janos
Hajdu
,
Steffen
Hauf
,
Michael
Heymann
,
Susannah
Holmes
,
Daniel A.
Horke
,
Mark S.
Hunter
,
Siegfried
Imlau
,
Alexander
Kaukher
,
Yoonhee
Kim
,
Alexander
Klyuev
,
Juraj
Knoška
,
Bostjan
Kobe
,
Manuela
Kuhn
,
Christopher
Kupitz
,
Jochen
Küpper
,
Janine Mia
Lahey-Rudolph
,
Torsten
Laurus
,
Karoline
Le Cong
,
Romain
Letrun
,
P. Lourdu
Xavier
,
Luis
Maia
,
Filipe R. N. C.
Maia
,
Valerio
Mariani
,
Marc
Messerschmidt
,
Markus
Metz
,
Davide
Mezza
,
Thomas
Michelat
,
Grant
Mills
,
Diana C. F.
Monteiro
,
Andrew
Morgan
,
Kerstin
Mühlig
,
Anna
Munke
,
Astrid
Münnich
,
Julia
Nette
,
Keith A.
Nugent
,
Theresa
Nuguid
,
Allen M.
Orville
,
Suraj
Pandey
,
Gisel
Pena
,
Pablo
Villanueva-Perez
,
Jennifer
Poehlsen
,
Gianpietro
Previtali
,
Lars
Redecke
,
Winnie Maria
Riekehr
,
Holger
Rohde
,
Adam
Round
,
Tatiana
Safenreiter
,
Iosifina
Sarrou
,
Tokushi
Sato
,
Marius
Schmidt
,
Bernd
Schmitt
,
Robert
Schönherr
,
Joachim
Schulz
,
Jonas A.
Sellberg
,
M. Marvin
Seibert
,
Carolin
Seuring
,
Megan L.
Shelby
,
Robert L.
Shoeman
,
Marcin
Sikorski
,
Alessandro
Silenzi
,
Claudiu A.
Stan
,
Xintian
Shi
,
Stephan
Stern
,
Jola
Sztuk-Dambietz
,
Janusz
Szuba
,
Aleksandra
Tolstikova
,
Martin
Trebbin
,
Ulrich
Trunk
,
Patrik
Vagovic
,
Thomas
Ve
,
Britta
Weinhausen
,
Thomas A.
White
,
Krzysztof
Wrona
,
Chen
Xu
,
Oleksandr
Yefanov
,
Nadia
Zatsepin
,
Jiaguo
Zhang
,
Markus
Perbandt
,
Adrian P.
Mancuso
,
Christian
Betzel
,
Henry
Chapman
,
Anton
Barty
Open Access
Abstract: The new European X-ray Free-Electron Laser is the first X-ray free-electron laser capable of delivering X-ray pulses with a megahertz inter-pulse spacing, more than four orders of magnitude higher than previously possible. However, to date, it has been unclear whether it would indeed be possible to measure high-quality diffraction data at megahertz pulse repetition rates. Here, we show that high-quality structures can indeed be obtained using currently available operating conditions at the European XFEL. We present two complete data sets, one from the well-known model system lysozyme and the other from a so far unknown complex of a β-lactamase from K. pneumoniae involved in antibiotic resistance. This result opens up megahertz serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) as a tool for reliable structure determination, substrate screening and the efficient measurement of the evolution and dynamics of molecular structures using megahertz repetition rate pulses available at this new class of X-ray laser source.
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Oct 2018
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I13-1-Coherence
Metrology
Optics
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J.
Krempasky
,
U.
Flechsig
,
P.
Vagovic
,
C.
David
,
F.
Koch
,
A.
Jaggi
,
C.
Svetina
,
Shashidhara
Marathe
,
D.
Batey
,
S.
Cipiccia
,
C.
Rau
,
F.
Seiboth
,
M.
Seaberg
,
U. H.
Wagner
,
L.
Patthey
,
L.
Mikes
Diamond Proposal Number(s):
[19521]
Abstract: Preserving the coherence and wavefront of a diffraction limited x-ray beam from the source to the experiment poses stringent quality requirements on the production processes for X-ray optics. In the near future this will require on-line and in-situ at-wavelength metrology for both, free electron lasers and diffraction limited storage rings. A compact and easy to move X-ray grating interferometry (XGI) setup has been implemented by the Beamline Optics Group at PSI in order to characterize x-ray optical components by determining the aberrations from reconstructing the x-ray wavefront. The XGI setup was configured for measurements in the moire mode and tested with focusing optic at Swiss Light Source, Diamond Light Source and LCLS. In this paper measurements on a bendable toroidal mirror, a zone plate, a single and a stack of beryllium compound refractive lenses (CRL) are presented. From these measurements the focal position and quality of the beam spot in terms of wavefront distortions are determined by analysing the phase-signal obtained from the XGI measurement. In addition, using a bendable toroidal mirror, we directly compare radius of curvature measurements obtained from XGI data with data from a long-trace profilometer, and compare the CRL wavefront distortions with data obtained by ptychography.
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Sep 2018
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Detectors
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Abstract: We report on indirect X-ray detector systems for various full-field, ultra high-speed X-ray imaging methodologies, such as X-ray phase-contrast radiography, diffraction topography, grating interferometry and speckle-based imaging performed at the hard X-ray imaging beamline ID19 of the European Synchrotron—ESRF. Our work highlights the versatility of indirect X-ray detectors to multiple goals such as single synchrotron pulse isolation, multiple-frame recording up to millions frames per second, high efficiency, and high spatial resolution. Besides the technical advancements, potential applications are briefly introduced and discussed.
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Apr 2018
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B16-Test Beamline
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B. K.
Tanner
,
J.
Wittge
,
P.
Vagovic
,
T.
Baumbach
,
D.
Allen
,
P. J.
Mcnally
,
R.
Bytheway
,
D.
Jacques
,
M. C.
Fossati
,
D. K.
Bowen
,
J.
Garagorri
,
M. R.
Elizalde
,
A. N.
Danilewsky
Abstract: The apparatus for X-ray diffraction imaging (XRDI) of 450-mm wafers, is now placed at the ANKA synchrotron radiation source in Karlsruhe, is described in the context of the drive to inspect wafers for plastic deformation or mechanical damage. It is shown that full wafer maps at high resolution can be expected to take a few hours to record. However, we show from experiments on 200-, 300-, and 450-mm wafers that a perimeter-scan on a 450-mm wafer, to pick up edge damage and edge-originated slip sources, can be achieved in just over 10 min. Experiments at the Diamond Light Source, on wafers still in their cassettes, suggest that clean-room conditions may not be necessary for such characterization. We conclude that scaling up of the 300-mm format Jordan Valley tools, together with the existing facility at ANKA, provides satisfactory capability for future XRDI analysis of 450-mm wafers.
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Jun 2013
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