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Nanofocused x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy

Sharon Berkowicz1, Sudipta Das1, Mario Reiser1, Mariia Filianina1, Maddalena Bin1, Giulio Crevatin2, Franz Hennies3, Clemens Weninger3, Alexander Björling3 et al.

Paul Bell3 and Fivos Perakis1,*

  • 1Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
  • 3MAX IV laboratory, Lund University, Lund 22100, Sweden

  • *f.perakis@fysik.su.se
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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L032012 – Published 25 July, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L032012

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Here, we demonstrate an experimental proof of concept for nanofocused x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, a technique sensitive to nanoscale fluctuations present in a broad range of systems. The experiment, performed at the NanoMAX beamline at MAX IV, uses a novel event-based x-ray detector to capture nanoparticle structural dynamics with microsecond resolution. By varying the nanobeam size from σ=88 nm to σ=2.5μm, we quantify the effect of the nanofocus on the small-angle scattering lineshape and on the diffusion coefficients obtained from nano-XPCS. We observe that the use of nanobeams leads to a multifold increase in speckle contrast, which greatly improves the experimental signal-to-noise ratio, quantified from the two-time intensity correlation functions. We conclude that it is possible to account for influence of the high beam divergence on the lineshape and measured dynamics by including a convolution with the nanobeam profile in the model.

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Phys. Rev. Research 4, L032012– Published 25 July, 2022
  • Received 17 December 2021
  • Revised 19 May 2022
  • Accepted 16 June 2022
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