Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jul 12, 2026

Improving High Viscosity Extrusion of Microcrystals for Time-resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography at X-ray Lasers
Published on: February 28, 2019
Time-resolved X-ray diffraction system for study of Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 films under a temporal electric field at BL15XU,
Okkyun Seo1, Jaemyung Kim1, Chulho Song2
1Synchrotron X-ray Group, Research Center for Advanced Measurement and Characterization, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
Abstract:
We report on the use of a time-resolved X-ray diffraction system to study a piezoelectric material under a temporal electric field at the BL15XU NIMS beamline, at SPring-8 in Japan. By synchronizing focused X-rays onto a device under an applied electric field with a two-dimensional detector and measurements performed with respect to the synchrotron clock signal, we successfully observed shifts of the 222 Bragg peak of 750-nm-thick Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 films near time zero under a unipolar rectangular wave at 24 V. We expect that this system might be useful for understanding the piezoresponse, lattice dynamics, and domain switching dynamics of functional oxide thin films.
Related Concept Videos
X-ray Crystallography
Diffraction
Diffraction is the change in the direction of travel experienced by an electromagnetic wave when it encounters a physical barrier whose dimensions are comparable to those of the wavelength of the light. X-rays are electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths about as long as the distance between neighboring...
X-ray Diffraction of Biological Samples
According to Bragg's law, when X-rays strike the sample positioned on a stage, the rays are scattered by the electron clouds around the sample atoms. The X-ray diffraction or scattering is caused by constructive interference of the X-ray waves that reflect off the internal crystal...
Determination of Crystal Structures