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Volume 12 Issue 3, March 2018

Ultrafast X-ray holography

X-ray diffraction pattern generated from two different-sized spherical objects in close proximity to each other. The curvature and modulation of the dark fringes in the pattern provide useful information related to the relative position of the two objects and can be interpreted for image reconstruction. The result is a scheme that can perform ultrafast X-ray imaging of nanoscale systems such as a virus.

See Gorkhover et al.

Image: Anatoli Ulmer, TU Berlin, Germany. Cover Design: Bethany Vukomanovic.

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