Science@id11

A very few selected ESRF highlights articles are listed here, to give a flavour of the kind of experiments which have previously been performed on the beamline.

The 3D x-ray microscope:

• Diffraction from individual grains
  Grain Rotations during Deformation of Polycrystals
• Monitoring transformations in single grains
  Monitoring metastable grains in steel
• Kinetic measurements on individual grains
  Kinetics of Individual Grains During Recrystallisation
• 3D grain mapping
  Direct observation of 3D grain growth in Al-0.1%Mn

Time resolved x-ray scattering:

• Aerodynamic levitation
  Time-resolved structural study of the glass transition in glass forming liquids
• Phase transitions in polymers
  Inverse Melting in Polymers
• 100ms time resolution to study fast synthesis
  Time-Resolved Studies of Intermetallic-Ceramic Synthesis by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis

Single Crystal studies:

• Observation of weak superlattice reflections from a microcrystal
  Direct Observation of One-dimensional Charge Order in Yb4As3
• Avoiding extinction effects with high energy x-rays
  Bonding electrons viewed by synchrotron radiation