High-flux hard X-ray microbeam using a single-bounce capillary with doubly focused undulator beam

A pre-focused X-ray beam has been used to illuminate a single-bounce capillary in order to generate a high-flux X-ray microbeam at the BioCAT undulator X-ray beamline at the Advanced Photon Source. The combined optical arrangement makes it suitable for many microprobe fluorescence applications and micro-XANES experiments for biological samples.

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