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International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. C. ch. 4.2, p. 237

Section 4.2.5.2.2. Capillaries

D. C. Creaghb

4.2.5.2.2. Capillaries

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Capillaries, and bundles of capillaries, are finding increasing use in situations where a focused beam is required. The radiation is guided along the capillary by total external reflection, and the shape of the capillary determines the overall flux gain and the uniformity of the focused spot. Gains in flux of 100 and better have been reported. There is, however, a degradation in the angular divergence of the outgoing beam. For single capillaries, applications are laboratory-based protein crystallography, microtomography, X-ray microscopy, and micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The design and construction of capillaries for use in the laboratory and at synchrotron-radiation sources has been discussed by Bilderback, Thiel, Pahl & Brister (1994[link]), Balaic & Nugent (1995[link]), Balaic, Nugent, Barnea, Garrett & Wilkins (1995[link]), Balaic et al. (1996[link]), and Engström, Rindby & Vincze (1996[link]). They are usually used after other monochromators in these applications and their role as a low-pass energy filter is not of much significance.

Bundles of capillaries are currently being produced commercially to produce focused beams (ellipsoidally shaped bundles) and half-ellipsoidal bundles are used to form beams of large cross section from conventional laboratory sources (Peele et al., 1996[link]; Kumakhov & Komarov, 1990[link]).

References

First citation Balaic, D. X., Barnea, Z., Nugent, K. A., Garrett, R. F., Varghese, J. N. & Wilkins, S. W. (1996). Protein crystal diffraction patterns using a capillary-focused synchrotron X-ray beam. J. Synchrotron Rad. 3, 289–295.Google Scholar
First citation Balaic, D. X. & Nugent, K. A. (1995). The X-ray optics of tapered capillaries. Appl. Opt. 34, 7263–7272.Google Scholar
First citation Balaic, D. X., Nugent, K. A., Barnea, Z., Garrett, R. & Wilkins, S. W. (1995). Focusing of X-rays by total external reflection from a paraboloidally tapered glass capillary. J. Synchrotron Rad. 2, 296–299.Google Scholar
First citation Bilderback, D. H., Thiel, D. J., Pahl, R. & Brister, K. E. (1994). X-ray applications with glass-capillary optics. J. Synchrotron Rad. 1, 37–42.Google Scholar
First citation Engström, P., Rindby, A. & Vincze, L. (1996). Capillary optics. ESRF Newsletter, 26, 30–31.Google Scholar
First citation Kumakhov, M. A. & Komarov, F. F. (1990). Multiple reflection from surface X-ray optics. Phys. Rep. 191(5), 289–350.Google Scholar
First citation Peele, A. G., Nugent, K. A., Rode, A. V., Gabel, K., Richardson, M. C. M., Strack, R. & Siegmund, W. (1996). X-ray focusing with lobster-eye optics: a comparison of theory with experiment. Appl. Opt. 35, 4420–4425.Google Scholar








































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