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Communication: X-ray coherent diffractive imaging by immersion in nanodroplets
- Tanyag, Rico Mayro P;
- Bernando, Charles;
- Jones, Curtis F;
- Bacellar, Camila;
- Ferguson, Ken R;
- Anielski, Denis;
- Boll, Rebecca;
- Carron, Sebastian;
- Cryan, James P;
- Englert, Lars;
- Epp, Sascha W;
- Erk, Benjamin;
- Foucar, Lutz;
- Gomez, Luis F;
- Hartmann, Robert;
- Neumark, Daniel M;
- Rolles, Daniel;
- Rudek, Benedikt;
- Rudenko, Artem;
- Siefermann, Katrin R;
- Ullrich, Joachim;
- Weise, Fabian;
- Bostedt, Christoph;
- Gessner, Oliver;
- Vilesov, Andrey F
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4933297Abstract
Lensless x-ray microscopy requires the recovery of the phase of the radiation scattered from a specimen. Here, we demonstrate a de novo phase retrieval technique by encapsulating an object in a superfluid helium nanodroplet, which provides both a physical support and an approximate scattering phase for the iterative image reconstruction. The technique is robust, fast-converging, and yields the complex density of the immersed object. Images of xenon clusters embedded in superfluid helium droplets reveal transient configurations of quantum vortices in this fragile system.
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