Gerhard Schaller

TL;DR: This work offers a new approach to structure determination of macromolecules that do not yield crystals of sufficient size for studies using conventional radiation sources or are particularly sensitive to radiation damage, by using pulses briefer than the timescale of most damage processes.

TL;DR: This work shows that high-quality diffraction data can be obtained with a single X-ray pulse from a non-crystalline biological sample, a single mimivirus particle, which was injected into the pulsed beam of a hard-X-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.

TL;DR: The plasma dynamics of single mesoscopic Xe particles irradiated with intense femtosecond x-ray pulses exceeding 10(16) W/cm2 from the Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron laser are investigated and show that for clusters illuminated with intense x-Ray pulses, highly charged ionization fragments in a narrow distribution are created.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported an unprecedented high degree of ionization of xenon atoms by 1.5 keV free-electron laser pulses to charge states with ionization energies far exceeding the photon energy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new high-resolution X-ray imager based on a pnCCD detector and a polycapillary optics, which is operated in split frame mode allowing a high frame rate of 400 Hz with an energy resolution of 152 eV for Mn K α (5.9) at 450 kcps.