High-speed crystal detection and characterization using a fast-readout detector.
A novel raster-scanning method combining continuous sample translation with the fast readout of a Pilatus P6M detector has been developed on microfocus beamline I24 at Diamond Light Source. This fast grid-scan tool allows the rapid evaluation of large sample volumes without the need to increase the beam size at the sample through changes in beamline hardware. A slow version is available for slow-readout detectors. Examples of grid-scan use in centring optically invisible samples and in detecting and characterizing numerous microcrystals on a mesh-like holder illustrate the most common applications of the grid scan now in routine use on I24.
Aishima
Jun
J
Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, England.
Owen
Robin L
RL
Axford
Danny
D
Shepherd
Emma
E
Winter
Graeme
G
Levik
Karl
K
Gibbons
Paul
P
Ashton
Alun
A
Evans
Gwyndaf
G
D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors
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