News from the X-ray imaging group
Up one levelID19: Brand-new optics
Major refurb to ID19 will boost ESRF’s imaging science…
Pioneer of imaging techniques receives ESRF Young Scientist Award
The Young Scientist of the Year Award 2012 was presented to Irene Zanette on 7 February 2012.…
Synchrotron culture
Studies of cultural artefacts are not just about pretty pictures and press releases, explains Marine Cotte, scientist in charge at ID21.…
How a scientist cut his teeth
Paul Tafforeau, beamline scientist on ID19, reveals how within a decade the ESRF became the world’s finest fossil photobooth. It began with a broken jaw at the turn of the millennium……
Future-proofing the past
Behind the scenes at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Matthew Chalmers finds conservators juggling cutting-edge science and ethics to preserve our cultural heritage.…
Parallel power: the new rules of reconstruction
Once the preserve of computer-game enthusiasts, graphics processing units have vastly increased the speed of image reconstruction at the ESRF.…
ID21 X-ray spectromicroscope energy range extended to 9 keV
The energy range of the ID21 X-ray spectromicroscope has been extended up to 9 keV.…
Why geobiology runs deeper
Scientists have gained insight into a weird world of life at extreme depths. While temperature is the principal limiting factor for life, pressure plays a major role in the deep marine and terrestrial subsurfaces where large microbial populations do chemistry with the metals…
Röntgen prize for ESRF users
Christian David of the Paul Scherrer Institut and Franz Pfeiffer of TU Munich received the Röntgen prize for their joint development of grating-based phase contrast with conventional X-ray tubes, work that was originally based on experiments carried out at BM5 and ID19. …
ESRF joins in 12M€ project to develop compact X-ray source for hospitals and museums
Phase contrast imaging of lipid membranes in solution
ID19: Brand-new optics
Debian for Scientific Facilities Days