Howard A. Padmore

TL;DR: The Advanced Light Source (ALS) was initially conceived primarily as a low-energy (1.9-GeV) third-generation source of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and soft X-ray radiation, and it was realized very early in the development of the facility that a multipole wiggler source coupled with high-quality (brightness-preserving) optics would result in a beamline whose performance across the optimal energy range (5-15 keV) for macromolecular crystallography (MX) would be comparable to, or even exceed, that of many

TL;DR: The US community working in detector technology is under-funded and fragmented and works without the long term funding commitment required for development of the most advanced detector systems as discussed by the authors, and it is becoming apparent that the US is falling behind its international competitors in provision of state-of-the-art detector technology for cutting edge synchrotron radiation based experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on successful fabrication and testing of ultra-dense saw-tooth substrates with 5,000 and 10,000 lines/mm, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, a femtosecond X-ray source was proposed based on a linear accelerator combined with Xray pulse compression, which was shown to have high tunability for demanding optical/X-ray pump probe experiments.

TL;DR: A scanning X-ray microdiffraction beamline using white or monochromatic beam has been recently made available to the user's community at the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley, USA.