To.Sca.Lab

Ultra-fast Total Scattering and PDFs at the European XFEL through a huge collaboration across Europe!

Using a tilted detector at the HED instrument, we have achieved high-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free-electron laser on a range of samples, including crystalline, nanocrystalline, and amorphous solids, liquids, and clusters in solution.
Additionally, we perform a variety of structural analyses and compare our data to synchrotron measurements.

Pre-print available on arXiv!

High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Data using an X-ray Free Electron Laser High-quality total scattering data, a key tool for understanding atomic-scale structure in disordered materials, require stable instrumentation and access to high momentum transfers. This is now routine at dedicated synchrotron instrumentation using high-energy X-ray beams, but it is very challengin...

Lucia Allara and Mara Sybil Colombo have just finished a very intense experimental session at Aarhus Universitet with Prof. Jan Skov Pedersen, where they collected amazing small angle X-ray scattering data from quantum dots!