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| author | Sapnik, Adam F. Chater, Philip A. Keeble, Dean S. Evans, John S. O. Bertolotti, Federica Guagliardi, Antonietta Støckler, Lise J. Harbourne, Elodie A. Borup, Anders B. Silberg, Rebecca S. Descamps, Adrien Prescher, Clemens Klee, Benjamin D. Phelipeau, Axel Ullah, Imran Medina, Kárel G. Bird, Tobias A. Kaznelson, Viktoria Lynn, William Goodwin, Andrew L. Iversen, Bo B. Crepisson, Celine Bozin, Emil S. Jensen, Kirsten M. Ø. McBride, Emma E. Neder, Reinhard B. Robinson, Ian Wark, Justin Andrzejewski, Michal Boesenberg, Ulrike Brambrink, Erik Camarda, Carolina Cerantola, Valerio Goede, Sebastian Höppner, Hauke Humphries, Oliver S. Konopkova, Zuzana Kujala, Naresh Michelat, Thomas Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki Pelka, Alexander Preston, Thomas R. Randolph, Lisa Roeper, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Strohm, Cornelius Tang, Minxue Talkovski, Peter Zastrau, Ulf Appel, Karen Keen, David A. |
| author_facet | Sapnik, Adam F. Chater, Philip A. Keeble, Dean S. Evans, John S. O. Bertolotti, Federica Guagliardi, Antonietta Støckler, Lise J. Harbourne, Elodie A. Borup, Anders B. Silberg, Rebecca S. Descamps, Adrien Prescher, Clemens Klee, Benjamin D. Phelipeau, Axel Ullah, Imran Medina, Kárel G. Bird, Tobias A. Kaznelson, Viktoria Lynn, William Goodwin, Andrew L. Iversen, Bo B. Crepisson, Celine Bozin, Emil S. Jensen, Kirsten M. Ø. McBride, Emma E. Neder, Reinhard B. Robinson, Ian Wark, Justin Andrzejewski, Michal Boesenberg, Ulrike Brambrink, Erik Camarda, Carolina Cerantola, Valerio Goede, Sebastian Höppner, Hauke Humphries, Oliver S. Konopkova, Zuzana Kujala, Naresh Michelat, Thomas Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki Pelka, Alexander Preston, Thomas R. Randolph, Lisa Roeper, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Strohm, Cornelius Tang, Minxue Talkovski, Peter Zastrau, Ulf Appel, Karen Keen, David A. |
| contents | High-quality total scattering data, a key tool for understanding atomic-scale structure in disordered materials, require stable instrumentation and access to high momentum transfers. This is now routine at dedicated synchrotron instrumentation using high-energy X-ray beams, but it is very challenging to measure a total scattering dataset in less than a few microseconds. This limits their effectiveness for capturing structural changes that occur at the much faster timescales of atomic motion. Current X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond-pulsed X-ray beams with maximum energies of approximately 24 keV, giving the potential to measure total scattering and the attendant pair distribution functions (PDFs) on femtosecond timescales. Here, we show that this potential has been realised using the HED scientific instrument at the European XFEL and present normalised total scattering data for 0.35 Å-1 < Q < 16.6 Å-1 and their PDFs from a broad spectrum of materials, including crystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous solids, liquids, and clusters in solution. We analyse the data using a variety of methods, including Rietveld refinement, small-box PDF refinement, joint reciprocal-real space refinement, cluster refinement, and Debye scattering analysis. The resolution function of the setup is also characterised. We conclusively show that high-quality data can be obtained from a single approximately 30 fs XFEL pulse. Our efforts not only significantly increase the existing maximum reported Q-range for an S(Q) measured at an XFEL but also mean that XFELs are now a viable X-ray source for the broad community of people using reciprocal space total scattering and PDF methods in their research. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Data using an X-ray Free Electron Laser Sapnik, Adam F. Chater, Philip A. Keeble, Dean S. Evans, John S. O. Bertolotti, Federica Guagliardi, Antonietta Støckler, Lise J. Harbourne, Elodie A. Borup, Anders B. Silberg, Rebecca S. Descamps, Adrien Prescher, Clemens Klee, Benjamin D. Phelipeau, Axel Ullah, Imran Medina, Kárel G. Bird, Tobias A. Kaznelson, Viktoria Lynn, William Goodwin, Andrew L. Iversen, Bo B. Crepisson, Celine Bozin, Emil S. Jensen, Kirsten M. Ø. McBride, Emma E. Neder, Reinhard B. Robinson, Ian Wark, Justin Andrzejewski, Michal Boesenberg, Ulrike Brambrink, Erik Camarda, Carolina Cerantola, Valerio Goede, Sebastian Höppner, Hauke Humphries, Oliver S. Konopkova, Zuzana Kujala, Naresh Michelat, Thomas Nakatsutsumi, Motoaki Pelka, Alexander Preston, Thomas R. Randolph, Lisa Roeper, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Strohm, Cornelius Tang, Minxue Talkovski, Peter Zastrau, Ulf Appel, Karen Keen, David A. Materials Science High-quality total scattering data, a key tool for understanding atomic-scale structure in disordered materials, require stable instrumentation and access to high momentum transfers. This is now routine at dedicated synchrotron instrumentation using high-energy X-ray beams, but it is very challenging to measure a total scattering dataset in less than a few microseconds. This limits their effectiveness for capturing structural changes that occur at the much faster timescales of atomic motion. Current X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond-pulsed X-ray beams with maximum energies of approximately 24 keV, giving the potential to measure total scattering and the attendant pair distribution functions (PDFs) on femtosecond timescales. Here, we show that this potential has been realised using the HED scientific instrument at the European XFEL and present normalised total scattering data for 0.35 Å-1 < Q < 16.6 Å-1 and their PDFs from a broad spectrum of materials, including crystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous solids, liquids, and clusters in solution. We analyse the data using a variety of methods, including Rietveld refinement, small-box PDF refinement, joint reciprocal-real space refinement, cluster refinement, and Debye scattering analysis. The resolution function of the setup is also characterised. We conclusively show that high-quality data can be obtained from a single approximately 30 fs XFEL pulse. Our efforts not only significantly increase the existing maximum reported Q-range for an S(Q) measured at an XFEL but also mean that XFELs are now a viable X-ray source for the broad community of people using reciprocal space total scattering and PDF methods in their research. |
| title | High-Quality Ultra-Fast Total Scattering and Pair Distribution Function Data using an X-ray Free Electron Laser |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21462 |