For New Users

Initiating a research project

The X-1A beamline is supported in part as a user facility. Some of our users work in collaboration with us, while others submit general user proposals to operate as independent investigators. We encourage both modes of operation. There is no user charge.

To discuss use of the microscope, collaborative work, and general user proposal work, contact us by e-mail.
The NSLS provides information on requesting beamtime through general user proposals.

Acknowledgement

We request that X-1A users in their papers include an acknowledgement along the lines of this:

Data reported was taken using the X-1A STXM developed by the group of Janos Kirz and Chris Jacobsen at SUNY Stony Brook [1,2], with support by the New York State Office of Science and Technology Academic Research program under contract number C040075 and NASA's Discovery Data Analysis and Exobiology programs. The zone plates were developed by Ming Lu and Chris Jacobsen of Stony Brook and Don Tennant of Cornell University [3] with support from the NSF.

In talks, we would appreciate something along the lines of the following:

X-1A STXM developed by Kirz and Jacobsen group, SUNY Stony Brook with support from NYSTAR and NASA. Zone plates from Lu and Jacobsen (Stony Brook) and Tennant (Cornell) with support from NSF.

References:

C. Jacobsen, S. Williams, E. Anderson, M. T. Browne, C. J. Buckley, D. Kern, J. Kirz, M. Rivers and X. Zhang, "Diffraction-limited imaging in a scanning transmission x-ray microscope," Optics Communications 86, 351-364, (1991). [ PDF]
X. Zhang, H. Ade, C. Jacobsen, J. Kirz, S. Lindaas, S. Williams and S. Wirick, "Micro-XANES: Chemical Contrast in the Scanning Transmission x-ray Microscope," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 347, 431-435, (1994). [ PDF]
M. Lu, "Nanofabrication of Fresnel zone plates for soft X-ray imaging at carbon edge," Ph.D. thesis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, 2006. [ PDF]