In Situ Synchrotron Radiation Research In Materials Science

摘要

X-rays have found a wide range of ap- plications in chemistry, physics, and ma- terials engineering since their discovery in 1885 by W. Roentgen. The materials science community uses X-ray-based techniques extensively for characteriza- tion of materials. In the 1970s an new tun- able source of x-rays from the radiation produced by synchrotron accelerators emerged. Synchrotron radiation (SR) is an intense and forward-focused beam of radiation that is emitted when the path of an electron traveling at almost he speed of light is bent by a magnetic field. Fig- ure 1 illustrates the evolution of radiation intensity provided by various X-raysources.