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A new X-ray imaging technique that uses sticky, or Scotch, tape as a diffuser to generate “speckle” patterns makes it possible to characterize strongly curved X-ray mirrors in two dimensions with ...

Crystallography is the science of analyzing the pattern produced by shining an X-ray beam through a material sample. A powder sample produces a different pattern than solid crystal. One longstanding ...

High-energy X-ray diffraction patterns from a single grain of i-Gd-Cd were taken at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory with the beam parallel to the five-fold axis.

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