Instrument funding application success… What to do now?
For years, I have been trying to get a reasonable amount of money for an instrument. Last month, I was informed that this has been […]
Articles by Brian Pauw
Poking holes in perfection: the need for flatfield correction on a Mythen detector
Dr. Albrecht Petzold found and experimenting with this particular issue on his instrument: it looks like the Dectris Mythen detector signal can be cleaned up […]
Post gap: Scattering with Neutrons
Today, I’ve started an experiment doing SANS at D33 (ILL, France). I had planned to prepare a post for today, but it got snowed under […]
Paper highlight: Putting the pressure on proteins
Right as we were in the middle of moving last year, I helped out with the data processing of an interesting experiment (see here and […]
Video: aligning the SAXSess
We recorded a video for the alignment of the Anton Paar SAXSess instrument. This may be of use to some of you, although I will […]
Coping with the EU nanomaterial definition
[this is an excerpt from the talk I gave at TechConnect] Recently, the European Union has defined what they consider to be a nanomaterial: “A […]
TechConnect 2016
I am at the TechConnect 2016 conference right now, in spotless, shiny National Harbor, MD. Today, I’ll be giving a talk entitled: “Coping with the […]
Round Robin: precision of SAXS
We left off this issue a few weeks ago after discussing the variations between the datasets. However, we did not evaluate how variations in the […]
What does rebinning do?
Rebinning is an easy way to reduce the size of your datasets. But does it affect your results?
USAXS design progress (and issue)
The BAM workshop came back to me with the 18 requested workpieces. Assembly went smooth until it hit a snag..