Articles by Brian Pauw

A bit over a week ago, the copper X-ray microfocus source, our reliable light for the last seven years, suddenly stopped working. After opening the […]

Since our revamp of the processes at the start of the year, we’ve been seeing a higher-than-normal variability in the absolute intensity scaling of the […]

Over the last two decades, I’ve worked with and visited even more scattering instruments and synchrotron beam lines. For Reasons (™), I have been putting […]

Hey everyone. Things’ve been rather hectic in the lab of late, hence the radio silence. Nevertheless, a small announcement: on the 9th, I’ll be giving […]

In a couple of months, I will be joined for a week by a small group of amazing people, to set up the foundation for […]

Last week we spent a few days not measuring samples, but instead doing a few maintenance tasks that have been looming for a while. Let’s […]

Operational statistics are a good way of getting insight on the health of the lab. Let’s take a look at how the MOUSE did in […]

Our latest MOUSE collaborators, Ph.D. researcher Julia and Master’s student Keelin, are particularly excited about watching fat melt and resolidify. Not for a lack of […]

We have a user coming next week who’s interested in cooling their samples as fast as possible. This rapid cooling has a drastic effect on […]

Now that we’ve squashed most gremlins from the new EPICS-ified set-up, we are starting to obtain our datafiles again in the thousands. So far so […]