Recent Applications of X Rays in Condensed Matter Physics

NOV 01, 1995

Advances in x‐ray source brightness, detector efficiency, x‐ray optics and computing power promise to make the second century of x‐ray applications in condensed matter physics as exciting as the first.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881457

Jens Als‐Nielsen

Gerhard Materlik

Since their discovery by Wilhelm Conard Röntgen, X rays have played a significant role in our lives: they make the unseen in our bodies visible; they enhance our security in air travel; they make possible nondestructive testing of a wide variety of materials. And through x‐ray diffraction and spectroscopy they make it possible to probe the order of matter at the atomic level.

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More about the Authors

Jens Als‐Nielsen. Niels Bohr Institute, Oersted Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Gerhard Materlik. Hamburg, Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (HASYLAB), Deutsches, Elektronen‐Synchrotron (DESY), University of Hamburg.