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High-resolution surface structures

Nature Photonics volume 6, pages 574–575 (2012)Cite this article

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A three-dimensional imaging technique that harnesses reflected, coherent X-rays promises the ability to image nanomaterials within substrates.

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Figure 1: Geometries for coherent X-ray diffractive imaging experiments.

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  1. Adrian P. Mancuso is the leading scientist for the Single Particles, Clusters and Biomolecules Instrument of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser, 22607 Hamburg, Germany,

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  2. Garth J. Williams is a staff scientist at the CXI instrument of the Linac Coherent Light Source located at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, USA,

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Mancuso, A., Williams, G. High-resolution surface structures. Nature Photon 6, 574–575 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.209

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