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Lipidico Injection Protocol for Serial Crystallography Measurements at the Australian Synchrotron
Published on: September 23, 2020
A prototype chopper for synchrotron time-resolved crystallographic measurements
S L G Husheer1, J M Cole, T d'Almeida
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
A mechanical x-ray chopper has been designed to perform microsecond time-resolved crystallographic studies at the DIAMOND synchrotron I19 beamline. It consists of two asymmetric absorbers rotating synchronously at frequencies from 0 to 50 Hz in the same direction around a rotation axis that is parallel to the x-ray beam. The duration of the x-ray pulses produced by the chopper is determined by the relative phase between the two blades, which can be adjusted. The chopper system presented in this paper offers a time resolution suitable for conducting in situ experiments that afford the crystal structure of materials while in their transient (>10 micros) photoactivated excited states.
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