Femtosecond X-ray Fourier holography imaging of free-flying nanoparticles

Autor: Gorkhover, Tais, Ulmer, Anatoli, Ferguson, Ken, Bucher, Max, Maia, Filipe, Bielecki, Johan, Ekeberg, Tomas, Hantke, Max F., Daurer, Benedikt J., Nettelblad, Carl, Andreasson, Jakob, Barty, Anton, Bruza, Petr, Carron, Sebastian, Hasse, Dirk, Krzywinski, Jacek, Larsson, Daniel S. D., Morgan, Andrew, Muehlig, Kerstin, Mueller, Maria, Okamoto, Kenta, Pietrini, Alberto, Rupp, Daniela, Sauppe, Mario, van der Schot, Gijs, Seibert, Marvin, Sellberg, Jonas A., Svenda, Martin, Swiggers, Michelle, Timneanu, Nicusor, Westphal, Daniel, Williams, Garth, Zani, Alessandro, Chapman, Henry N., Faigel, Gyula, Moeller, Thomas, Hajdu, Janos, Bostedt, Christoph
Rok vydání: 2017
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-018-0110-y
Popis: Ultrafast X-ray imaging provides high resolution information on individual fragile specimens such as aerosols, metastable particles, superfluid quantum systems and live biospecimen, which is inaccessible with conventional imaging techniques. Coherent X-ray diffractive imaging, however, suffers from intrinsic loss of phase, and therefore structure recovery is often complicated and not always uniquely-defined. Here, we introduce the method of in-flight holography, where we use nanoclusters as reference X-ray scatterers in order to encode relative phase information into diffraction patterns of a virus. The resulting hologram contains an unambiguous three-dimensional map of a virus and two nanoclusters with the highest lat- eral resolution so far achieved via single shot X-ray holography. Our approach unlocks the benefits of holography for ultrafast X-ray imaging of nanoscale, non-periodic systems and paves the way to direct observation of complex electron dynamics down to the attosecond time scale.
Databáze: arXiv