High-speed X-ray 'camera' beamline taking shape at NSLS-II
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —"Phew!" Andrei Fluerasu breathes a sigh of relief as he looks over the plans for the beamline he has been building with a team of scientists, engineers and technicians at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—the newest large-scale scientific tool nearing completion at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. Fluerasu is the group leader for the Coherent Hard X-Ray (CHX) beamline, which will serve as a high-speed "camera" for exploring atom-scale details of materials, biological samples and more, and has been years in the making. "It feels like having a baby, but one that takes a very, very long time."