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The Beamline for Advanced diCHroism (BACH) of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IOM-CNR), operating at Elettra synchrotron in Trieste (Italy), works in the extreme ultra violet (EUV)-soft X-ray photon…
A Bayesian method application to the deconvolution of EXAFS spectra is considered. It is shown that for purposes of EXAFS spectroscopy, from the infinitely large number of Bayesian solutions it is possible to determine an optimal range of…
X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) can probe chemical and biological reactions as they unfold with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. A principal challenge in this pursuit is the delivery of samples to the X-ray interaction…
Using a novel ultrahigh resolution ($\Delta E \sim 0.1\,$eV) setup to measure electronic features in x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) experiments at the European XFEL in Germany, we have studied the collective plasmon excitation in aluminium…
An easily accessible method is presented that permits to calculate spectra involving atomic multiplets relevant to X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) experiments. We present specific examples…
Development of materials for electrochemical energy conversion requires a deep understanding of the factors governing chemical and physical rates at submicron length scales. Many workers have sought to develop chemically sensitive in situ…
The contribution of static and thermal disorder is one of the largest challenges for the accurate determination of the atomic structure from the extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS). Although there are a number of generally…
Since its first successful applications in the early 2000s, x-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has emerged as one of the most successful tools for the diagnostics of extreme states of matter in the laboratory. By sampling the dynamic structure…
Local structure of FeSe(1-x)Te(x) has been studied by extended x-ray absorption fine-structure (EXAFS) measurements as a function of temperature. Combination of Se and Fe K edge EXAFS has permitted to quantify the local interatomic…
The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) will deliver 27000 fully coherent, high brilliance X-ray pulses per second each with a duration below 100 fs. This will allow the recording of diffraction patterns of single molecules and the…
We present the design and lab performance of a prototype lenslet-slicer hybrid integral field spectrograph (IFS), validating the concept for use in future instruments like SCALES/PSI-Red. By imaging extrasolar planets with IFS, it is…
Fine structure analysis of core electron excitation spectra is a cornerstone characterization technique across the physical sciences. Spectra are most commonly measured with synchrotron radiation and X-ray spot sizes on the {\mu}m to mm…