Coherent Diffractive Imaging (CDI) uses a coherent x-ray beam to illumunate a sample and retrieve the phase information on the sample from phase-retrival analysis of the far-field diffraction pattern.
Of the many CDI variants developed ptychography has been shown to be the most robust and is a scanning technique where diffraction information is collected from overlapping regions and used to reconstruct the sample phase properties.
The advantage of ptychography is that the spatial resolution achieved can be higher than that achieved with conventional optics.
The Hard X-ray nanoprobe I14 beamline is a dedicated facility for nanoscale microscopy. The central theme of the beamline is the ability to obtain structural and chemically-specific information on a full range of materials (inorganic/organic) under both static and real (e.g. wet, heated, in-situ strain) conditions.
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I13-1 is a hard X-ray beamline, operating in the 6-20keV range. The beamline specialises in high-speed, multiscale and multimodal coherent diffraction imaging and ptychography in both transmission and Bragg geometries.
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I08-1 is the soft X-ray ptychography instrument at Diamond. The instrument is designed for ptychographic imaging, spectromicrosopy and tomography. I08-1 (J08) is currently in its commissioning/ optimisation phase and is open for proposal applications,
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ePSIC provides scientists with state-of-the-art experimental equipment and expertise in the filed of physical sciences electron microscopy and characterisation. Currently ePSIC offers beam time on two fully operational microscopes: (E01) A probe-corrected JEM ARM200F with EELS and EDX capabilities in collaboration with Johnson Matthey, and (E02) a probe and image corrected JEM ARM300F in collaboration with University of Oxford.
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The Diamond Manchester Imaging beamline performs real space imaging and tomography in the 8-30keV energy range. Absorption contrast and in-line phase contrast imaging are both available.
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The Materials and Magnetism beamline provides a unique, world-class single crystal X-ray diffraction facility for studying a diverse range of materials.
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The Coherent Soft X-ray Imaging and Diffraction (CSXID) beamline will be one of the three flagship beamlines in the Diamond-II upgrade programme, and will provide a range of high-resolution coherent imaging techniques including ptychography and holography.
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