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🌌 Unlocking the cosmos at the atomic level! 🚀 Scientists have beamed the first-ever X-ray snapshot of a lone atom using the game-changing synchrotron X-ray-scanning tunneling microscopy (SX-STM). 🕵️♂️ Dive into the nano realm, where each atom tells its unique story. This breakthrough is set to revolutionize environmental and medical sciences, letting us dance with materials at the atomic scale! 💃🌐 #rightnow #thebookofodd

Luying Yi, Xiaogang Liu and colleagues introduce an imaging technique named “stochastic photoluminescence and compressed encoding,” or SPACE. SPACE leverages randomly arrayed lanthanide transducers as photonic encoders to capture various excitation wavelengths in a single image, recorded by a charge-coupled device. This approach enables the reconstruction of multiple scenes from this encoded image across four wavelength channels: X-rays (0.089 nm), ultraviolet (375 nm), and two near-infrared bands (808 and 1,532 nm), with the ability to expand to more channels through multi-layer encoders. SPACE enables multi-channel imaging for depth visualization and multi-spectral X-ray analysis, offering broad multi-spectral sensitivity and on-chip compatibility. This makes it a versatile tool for applications in materials characterization, bioimaging, remote sensing, and astronomy. Online now in #Matter https://lnkd.in/eiZwsSRb

We are happy to share a groundbreaking study in Quantum Imaging! 👏 Researchers have introduced Quantum-Correlation Light-Field Microscopy (QCLFM), a transformative technique utilizing entangled photons for enhanced imaging and sensing, powered by our Phoebe, the single-photon #TPX3CAM. #QCLFM, rooted in light-field imaging principles, brilliantly captures both the position and momentum of light, achieving an extraordinary depth of field. The remarkable results include an impressive 5 µm resolution and a depth of field of ~500 µm - over 100 times greater than a conventional microscope. 🙌 This innovative approach, successfully tested on complex 3D scenes, can be a potential alternative to conventional LFM designs in the future. It represents not just a leap, but a quantum leap in imaging techniques, propelling us towards future imaging possibilities. We're proud to see our Phoebe detector play a pivotal role in this pioneering work! 😆 Full article: https://lnkd.in/eqw4RMUT Authors: Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England, Antony Orth, Ebrahim Karimi and Benjamin Sussman #ASI #QuantumImaging #ImagingTechniques #Timepix3 #Phoebe #photoncounting

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X-rays’ penetrating power is vital to many applications, but it’s challenging to achieve flexible on-demand patterning of x-ray beams - https://ow.ly/ywUt50PCZ1p Research from Optica [#OPG_Optica] proposes “ghost projection,” a method that can be described as a reversed form of ghost imaging. In their paper titled “Universal mask for hard x-rays,” a research team provides experimental proof of concept for their flexible approach to beam shaping, with applications for gamma rays, neutrons, atomic beams and more. Written by: David Ceddia, Alaleh Aminzadeh, Philip K. Cook, Daniele Pelliccia, Andrew M. Kingston, and David M. Paganin Monash Science #BeamShaping #XRays #GhostImaging

Wistar scientists often use fluorescence microscopy to study cells and cell structures. But how does this technology work? With fluorescence microscopy, scientists tag cells or parts of cells with a specific molecule. When this molecule is hit with a certain wavelength of light it becomes activated, and starts emitting a different wavelength of light. Researchers then use specialized microscopes to photograph this specific wavelength, creating images of the tagged cells. Want to learn more about Wistar’s imaging facility and capabilities? Click here: https://lnkd.in/ef-8YJKW #Science #ScientificImaging #Microscopy

Nature recently featured the Project 8 experiment and selected one of my images to showcase the apparatus we used to set the first-ever frequency-based upper limit on the neutrino mass. https://lnkd.in/eEXCE56J

I have the pleasure to announce the next XTOP2024 conference (https://lnkd.in/eTn6S8dD) that will be held in Carry-le-Rouet (next to Marseille (France)) from March 17 to 22, 2024. This will be the 15th edition of a conference gathering around 200 scientists. After the first edition in 1992 organized in Marseille, the conference is back at its origin after the 2018 edition in Bari (Italy). The main scope of the conference has been set in 1992 to focus on X-ray topography and high-resolution X-diffraction, however over the time the conference has evolved and now covers other related topics such as X-ray tomography, phase sensitive scattering, scanning techniques, …

What is stroboscopic optical scattering microscopy (stroboSCAT), and how can it be used? At #FIO24, Laser Science visionary speaker Naomi Ginsberg, University of California, Berkeley, will examine the future for how to detect and discern the spatiotemporal evolution of charge carriers, heat, and ions as they interconvert and explore emerging materials’ structure and heterogeneity on multiple scales. Save on registration rates by 27 August: https://bit.ly/3XZYWkb #laserscience #microscopy

Two firsts from Direct Electron reported in the same (Nobel) week! See also the highest resolution (1.46 Angstrom) CryoEM data JEOL has ever achieved on their scope equipped with the same Apollo detector as below. https://bit.ly/3F7zU8s