Ptychographic Imaging of Nano-Materials at the Advanced Light Source with the Nanosurveyor Instrument

David A. Shapiro, Rich Celestre, Peter Denes, Maryam Farmand, John Joseph, A. L.D. Kilcoyne, Stefano Marchesini, Howard Padmore, Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan, Tony Warwick, Young Sang Yu

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Abstract

We present a new ptychographic x-ray microscope dedicated to soft x-ray tomography and spectromicroscopy of nano-materials at the Advanced Light Source. The microscope utilizes an ultra-stable, high performance scanning mechanism with laser interferometer feedback for sample positioning and a fast frame rate charge-coupled device detector for soft x-ray diffraction measurements. The microscope can achieve point scan rates of 120 Hz with 1 nm RMS positioning accuracy. A high performance data pipeline has been developed which enables real time ptychographic reconstructions and user-friendly operation. This instrument, called The Nanosurveyor, can achieve a spatial resolution at least 10 times finer than the x-ray spot size in both two and three dimensions with sensitivity to electronicand magnetic states of nano-materials. In this paper we demonstrate the tomographic and spectromicroscopic capability of the Nanosurveyor instrument. At high brightness x-ray sources this instrument will enable spectromicroscopy and tomography of materials with diffraction limited spatial resolution.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012028
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume849
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 14 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International X-ray Microscopy Conference, XRM 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: Aug 15 2016Aug 19 2016

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