Programming your own data reduction? Check out fabIO and pyFAI
Reading in the detector data, and programming methods for that, is one of the more tedious tasks of any data reduction program. Those of you […]
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The Bonse Hart instrument works!
Ok, so let’s start with the disclaimer: very initial results (fresh off the instrument, hence the delay), and the primary beam intensity is still very, […]
Taking the Bonse Hart instrument apart again…
After a week trying to get a good reflection to come through the crystal — and failing —, it is time to take it apart, […]
Aligning the Bonse Hart crystal
For the last two weeks, I have had the X-ray generator up and running. After installation of an old cooling system there were some troubles […]
Slight delay.
My apologies for not having a post ready this week, I wanted to post about instrument alignment and how amazingly well it works, but it […]
Going all out: a new poster!
This week is the annual NIMS conference, a small conference here in Tsukuba in which there are only invited speakers. There is, however, a poster […]
Comment on the current state of internet surveillance
Unfortunately, not everything can be solved with small-angle scattering. Current affairs have led me to write this post, in which I try to highlight the […]
NIM-duino as ersatz counter-ratemeter (counts up to ~50000 counts per second)
The Bonse Hart USAXS instrument is coming along nicely, and the expectation is that we can start using X-rays pretty soon. One missing element in […]
A review of data collection and correction procedures.
Following my previous work in progress detailing the data correction steps to obtain good data, I finally had the chance to write this down in […]
Minor delay…
My apologies for not posting this week. Next week there should be much goodness!