Abstract The potential of modern methods for X‐ray diffraction Line Profile Analysis can be fully exploited with data collected at synchrotron radiation beamlines, provided that optics and experimental set‐up are suitably designed characterized. Material Characterization by Diffraction beamline, MCX, Elettra‐Sincrotrone Trieste, may operate a optimally arranged to study nanostructured materials, investigating details crystalline domain size shape, lattice defects, local atomic displacement...

A new computer environment to perform simulations on synchrotron experiments has been designed. It performs ray-tracing using the popular code SHADOW. With this application one can define, in a very easy and elegant way, or several optical systems (beamlines) calculations of propagation X-ray beam through it. Many complementary tools supplementary improve extend functionality SHADOW deal with complex system optimization, including compound elements, iterative calculations, some sample...

Copper-based chalcogenides have emerged as promising thermoelectric materials due to their high performance, tunable transport properties, earth abundance and low toxicity. We presented an overview of experimental results first-principal calculations investigating the properties various polymorphs Cu2SnS3 (CTS), Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS), Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) synthesized by high-energy reactive mechanical alloying (ball milling). Of particular interest are disordered these materials, which exhibit...

Nanometer-scale optical imperfections challenge coherent X-ray beam applications, even with advancements in synchrotron facilities, such as the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. Piezoelectric bimorph mirrors offer adaptive control but face limitations from nonlinearities crosstalk, creep, and hysteresis. This work introduces a real-time, feedback-free controller inspired by PID scheme powered tandem neural networks (TNN). Using task-specific datasets, TNN-based system predicts actuator...

Nanometer-scale optical imperfections challenge coherent X-ray beam applications, even with advancements in synchrotron facilities, such as the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. Piezoelectric bimorph mirrors offer adaptive control but face limitations from nonlinearities crosstalk, creep, and hysteresis. This work introduces a real-time, feedback-free controller inspired by PID scheme powered tandem neural networks (TNN). Using task-specific datasets, TNN-based system predicts actuator...

Nanometer-scale optical imperfections challenge coherent X-ray beam applications, even with advancements in synchrotron facilities, such as the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. Piezoelectric bimorph mirrors offer adaptive control but face limitations from nonlinearities crosstalk, creep, and hysteresis. This work introduces a real-time, feedback-free controller inspired by PID scheme powered tandem neural networks (TNN). Using task-specific datasets, TNN-based system predicts actuator...

Nanometer-scale optical imperfections challenge coherent X-ray beam applications, even with advancements in synchrotron facilities, such as the upgraded Advanced Photon Source. Piezoelectric bimorph mirrors offer adaptive control but face limitations from nonlinearities crosstalk, creep, and hysteresis. This work introduces a real-time, feedback-free controller inspired by PID scheme powered tandem neural networks (TNN). Using task-specific datasets, TNN-based system predicts actuator...

The evolution of the hardware platforms, modernization software tools, access to codes a large number young people and popularization open source for scientific applications drove us design OASYS (ORange SYnchrotron Suite), completely new graphical environment modelling X-ray experiments. implemented architecture allows obtain not only an intuitive very-easy-to-use interface, but also provides high flexibility rapidity interactive simulations, making configuration changes quickly compare...

We introduce a coded-mask-based multi-contrast imaging method for high-resolution phase-contrast and dark-field imaging. The uses binary phase mask designed to provide an ultra-high-contrast pattern reference-free single-shot measurement algorithm based on maximum-likelihood optimization automatic differentiation perform simultaneous reconstruction of absorption, phase, object images. Further, we demonstrate that the has great potential real-time quantitative wavefront sensing when combined...

A neural-network machine learning model is developed to control a bimorph adaptive mirror achieve and preserve aberration-free coherent X-ray wavefronts at synchrotron radiation free electron laser beamlines. The controller trained on actuator response directly measured beamline with real-time single-shot wavefront sensor, which uses coded mask wavelet-transform analysis. system has been successfully tested deformable the 28-ID IDEA of Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory. It...

Separation of size and strain effects on diffraction line profiles has been studied in a round robin involving laboratory instruments synchrotron radiation beamlines operating with different radiation, optics, detectors experimental configurations. The sample, an extensively ball milled iron alloy powder, provides ideal test case, as domain broadening are comparable size. high energy available at some the best conditions for accurate analysis profiles, size–strain separation clearly benefits...

X-ray phase-contrast imaging has become indispensable for visualizing samples with low absorption contrast. In this regard, speckle-based techniques have shown significant advantages in spatial resolution, phase sensitivity, and implementation flexibility compared traditional methods. However, the computational cost associated data inversion hindered their wider adoption. By exploiting power of deep learning, we developed a neural network (SPINNet) that significantly improves quality boosts...

An iron-molybdenum alloy powder was extensively deformed by high energy milling, so to refine the bcc iron domain size nanometer scale (~10 nm) and introduce a strong inhomogeneous strain. Both features contribute comparable degree diffraction peak profile broadening, that strain contributions can be easily separated exploiting their different dependence on angle. To assess reliability of Line Profile Analysis, results were compared with evidence from other techniques, including scanning...

Thin films of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) were prepared by sulfurization multilayered precursors ZnS, Cu, and Sn, changing the relative amounts to obtain CZTS layers with different compositions. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Energy Dispersive spectroscopy, SEM used for structural, compositional, morphological analyses, respectively. XRD quantitative phase analysis provides amount spurious phases information on Sn-site occupancy. The optical properties investigated spectrophotometric measurements...

Different approaches to simulate a modern X-ray beamline are considered. Several methodologies with increasing complexity applied discuss the relevant parameters that quantify performance. Parameters such as flux, dimensions and intensity distribution of focused beam, coherence properties obtained from simple analytical calculations sophisticated computer simulations using ray-tracing wave optics techniques. A latest-generation nanofocusing for coherent applications (ID16A at ESRF) has been...

We describe the application of an AI-driven system to autonomously align complex x-ray-focusing mirror systems, including mirrors systems with variable focus spot sizes. The has been developed and studied on a digital twin nanofocusing X-ray beamlines, built using advanced optical simulation tools calibrated wavefront sensing data collected at beamline.We experimentally demonstrated that is reliably capable positioning focused beam sample, both by simulating variation beamline random...

Synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns from an extensively ball-milled iron alloy powder were collected at 100, 200 and 300 K. The results analysed together with those using extended absorption fine structure, measured on the same sample liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K) room (300 K), to assess contribution of static disorder Debye-Waller coefficient (Biso). Both techniques give increase ∼20% respect bulk reference iron, a noticeably smaller difference than reported by most...

An open-source database containing metrology data for X-ray mirrors is presented. It makes available (mirror heights and slopes profiles) that can be used with simulation tools calculating the effects of optical surface errors in performances an instrument, such as a synchrotron beamline. A typical case degradation intensity profile at focal position beamline due to mirror errors. This (DABAM) aims provide users real mirrors. The included are described this paper, details how parameters...

The OASYS suite and its powerful integration features are used to implement a ray-tracing algorithm accurately calculate the thermal load in any component of an undulator-based synchrotron beamline. This is achieved by sampling converting SRW source given energy into Shadow using latter code ray trace full accuracy proved reconstructing undulator radiation distribution through aperture comparing result with direct calculaton total power SRW. particularly suited analyze cases complex beamline...

A new graphic environment to drive X-ray optics simulation packages such as SHADOW and SRW is proposed. The aim simulate a virtual experiment, including the description of electron beam emitted radiation, optics, scattering by sample radiation detection. Python chosen common interaction language. ingredients application, glossary variables for optical component, selection visualization tools, integration all these components in high level workflow built on Orange are presented.

A modern synchrotron beamline requires an important simulation effort for its design and optimization. OASYS (OrAnge SYnchrotron Suite) is open-source graphical environment software designed that purpose, to perform virtual experiments in efficient, elegant precise way.The provides not only intuitive very-easy-to-use interface, but also high flexibility rapidity interactive simulations. It allows quickly define compare multiple configurations the same workspace permit optimizing X-ray...