Video: The bits and pieces of an Ultra-SAXS machine
At long last, I managed to make a video showing the current state of the Ultra-SAXS instrument. The video can be seen here:
McSAS Paper accepted, more remote beamtime, Holiday!
This week is special in Japan: only Thursday and Friday are working days (unfortunately the highways are stuck on the holidays making it impossible to […]
Not all roses: Ultra-SAXS initial results (with scintillation detector)
I thought I would show you the first results today from version two of the “open” Bonse Hart Ultra-SAXS instrument. This instrument took a while […]
Coherence in practice
During last week’s CanSAS meeting, I showed some new results on the coherence story. These appear to support the concepts raised earlier quite well.
CanSAS day 2 and 3.
Days two and three were as hectic, if not more, than day one.
CanSAS day 1
Today was the first day of the CanSAS meeting (the eighth) held in Tokai this time. Apart from meeting amazing people, I also got the […]
Open Laboratory Equipment and a Guinier Prize note
Today, I would like to list some interesting developments in open instrumentation. Also, I want to drop a quick note on the Guinier prize of […]
Following quantum dot growth with McSAS
Thanks to Benjamin Abécassis (via Twitter), I got involved in an interesting project. Dr. Abécassis and coworkers had been doing in-situ measurements during synthesis of […]
…And then the assembly
Today we had the new X-ray source arriving. It’s not working yet, but its imminent arrival spurred me into action to mount the Ultra-SAXS components […]