A low-profile monolithic multi-element Ge detector for X-ray fluorescence applications

A small footprint detector has been designed, built and commissioned for X-ray fluorescence applications. It provides an active area of greater than 90% compared with 36% of the conventional design.

XAFS conference proceedings and JSR

Conversion of the oldest XAFS station at the first dedicated SR source to a state-of-the-art XAFS facility

Synchrotron radiation and structural biology

Structure of metal centres in proteins at subatomic resolution

XAFS provides local structure of the metal site at subatomic resolution and is equally applicable to both aqueous and crystalline samples. This review provides some recent case studies to illustrate its synergy with protein X-ray crystallographic determination. This synergy exists not only for the scientific objective of structure-based understanding of proteins' function but extends to the source and general instrument requirements, particularly with MAD.

Synchrotron radiation sources in the news and JSR goes online