Faster than a Speeding Bubble

X-ray scattering images (above) and corresponding 3D depictions (below) of nucleation events, or "bubbles," forming in the semiconductor Indium Antimonide in the first instances after being hit with a laser pulse. Credit: SLAC


X-ray Method Images Ions at Interface

Jun 12, 2004

A team led by Northwestern University researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have taken the guesswork out of interfacial structure determination. The researchers are the first to show ...


The world's smallest synchrotron, MIRRORCLE-6X, now commercially available

Feb 21, 2005

Synchrotron light, the highly prized output from a synchrotron (a particular type of particle accelerator), is an extremely powerful investigative tool in many fields of science and technology. Once considered a parasitic ...


Animated Movie of Ice

Jan 07, 2008

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers from the University of Uppsala have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it ...