Highlights 2000-2001

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Research Highlights

• Biomedical Sciences
  • Structural studies of the mRNA nuclear export factor TAP-p15
    
  • Diffraction Enhanced X-ray Imaging of Biological Tissues
    
  • Characterization of mineralization in bone diseases
    
  • MAD data collection on a Hg derivative crystal of a novel pectate lyase from Azospirilum irakense
    
  • Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases from chloroplasts
    
  • Use of soft X-ray in phasing of biological macromolecules
    
  • A New Procedure for Automated Protein Structure Determination involving the use of soft X-rays
    
  
  
• Materials and Surfaces
  • Structural Studies
    • In Situ-SAXS Investigations on Zinc Sulphide Precipitation in a Liquid Jet on a Microsecond Time Scale
      
    • GISAXS study of cadmium sulfide quantum dots reveals clues for design optimization of electro-optical semiconductor devices
      
    • Self-assembly of 2D-Hexagonal templated TiO2 mesostructured films during dip-coating
      
    
    
  • Electronic Properties
    • Investigation of the LMM Auger spectra of Fe in ultrathin Fe films grown on Cu(100): variations in the lifetime of 3d hole states
      
    • Low-dimensional electronic structures on In-terminated InAs(001)-c(4x4) and –(4x2)c(8x2) surfaces
      
    • Strong spin-filter effects observed in high-resolution photoemission from Cu(100) with circularly polarized light
      
    • Photoemission lineshape at finite temperature
      
    • Direct experimental evidence of insensitivity of local Schottky barriers to lateral chemical inhomogeneity in case studies of metal/GaN(0001) interfaces
      
    
    
  
  
• Atomic, molecular and supramolecular studies
  • Coherence and correlation effects in indirect double photoionization
    
  • X-ray structure of non-covalent calixarene-porphyrin supramolecular complexes with pH tuned stoichiometry
    
  
  
• Carbon nanotubes
  • Carbon nanotubes
    
  • X-ray photoelectron microscopy of the C1s core level of free standing single-wall carbon nanotubes
    
  • Electronic structure of aligned carbon nanotubes studied by photoemission microscopy
    
  
  
• Instrumentation development
  • A UHV compatible hybrid circuit for multichannel data acquisition systems
    
  • Novel Zone Plate Doublet for Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy Fabricated by means of Electron Beam Lithography
    
  • Deep X-Ray Lithography at ELETTRA
    
  
  

Machine Status

• Operational Status and developments
  
• The ELETTRA Transverse Multi Bunch Feedback System
  
• Commissioning results of the Low Gap BPM system
  
• Progress with the European Storage Ring Free-Electron Laser Project at ELETTRA
  

Facts & Figures

• ELETTRA Beamline Status
  
• ELETTRA Layout
  
• Statistics of accepted proposals
  
• Resources allocated at ELETTRA
  
• Laboratory Staff
  

Events

• Thirteenth International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics
  
• Inauguration of the Deep X-Ray Lithography beamline
  
• VIII USERS’ MEETING
  
• Rai International
  
• IAEA visit