Communication: X-ray coherent diffractive imaging by immersion in nanodroplets
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Date
2015
Volume
2
Issue
5
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Structural dynamics
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Melville, NY : AIP Publishing LLC
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Lensless x-ray microscopy requires the recovery of the phase of the radiation scattered from a specimen. Here, we demonstrate a de novo phase retrieval technique by encapsulating an object in a superfluid helium nanodroplet, which provides both a physical support and an approximate scattering phase for the iterative image reconstruction. The technique is robust, fast-converging, and yields the complex density of the immersed object. Images of xenon clusters embedded in superfluid helium droplets reveal transient configurations of quantum vortices in this fragile system.
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CC BY 3.0 Unported