Volume 7, Number 1-2, June 2008

vol. 7                  ALL IN ONE FILE Bulletin vol. 07 (33MB)
	Editorial board		I
	Polskie Towarzystwo Promieniowania Synchrotronowego
CONTENTS
W. Paszkowicz	Editorial		1
J. Pełka, W. Paszkowicz, and E.A. Görlich	Synchrotron Light News		1
	Synchrotrons in East-Central Europe		3
Regular contributions
L. Gerward	Professor Bronislaw Buras: The energy-dispersive method and synchrotron radiation		4
A. Kisiel	My first experiences with synchrotron radiation		10
W.K. Wierzchowski	Investigation of diamonds at SRS in Daresbury and at Royal Holloway College		13
G. Kowalski	Daresbury Laboratory in the 1980s – Bristol University x-ray group		16
J. Kucytowski and K. Wokulska	Krzem jako wzorzec w badaniach współczesnych materiałów		19
D. Żymierska	News from the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society		23
D. Żymierska	Central Laboratory of X-ray and Electron Microscopy Research at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw		25
ISSRNS — 9th: International School and Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science 2008
	ISSRNS 2008 – information		31
	ISSRNS 2008 – programme		32
	Welcome		34
ISSRNS 2008: Invited lectures and oral presentations
J. Baruchel	Advances and trends in hard x-ray SR-base imaging	L1 ext	35
D. Pelliccia, C. Giannini, L. De Caro, A. Cedola, I. Bukreeva, and S. Lagomarsino	Advancement in x-ray waveguides and their applications in coherent diffraction imaging	L2	37
J.H. Je, B.M. Weon, S.K. Seol, J.M. Yi, Y. Hwu, and G. Margaritondo	X-ray imaging in micro-to-nano world	L3 ext	38
P. Korecki	Real-space imaging of atomic structure	L4	40
M. Kiskinova	Imaging and spectromicroscopy of micro- and nano-materials	L5	41
D.L. Nagy, L. Bottyán, A.I. Chumakov, L. Deák, E. Harth, M. Major, J. Meersschaut, D.G. Merkel, R. Rüffer, E. Szilágyi, F. Tanczikó, and D. Visontai	Synchrotron Mössbauer reflectometry observation and cellular automaton simulation of domain formation and transformation in antiferromagnetically coupled Fe/Cr multilayers	L6 ext	42
A.J. Wojtowicz and S. Janus	VUV luminescence of BaF2:Er and (Ba,La)F2:Er	L7 ext	45
W. Tabiś, J. Kusz, N. Kim-Ngan Tarnawska, Z. Tarnawski, F. Zontone, Z. Kąkol, and A. Kozłowski	Structural changes at the Verwey transition in Fe3O4	L8 ext	47
H.A. Dürr	Electron and spin correlations in complex materials on nm length and fs time scales	L9	49
M. Švec, V. Dudr, M. Vondráček, P. Jelínek, P. Mutombo, V. Cháb, F. Šutara, V. Matolíın, and K.C. Prince	Intra-atomic charge re-organization at the Pb-Si interface: Bonding mechanism at low coverage	L10 ext	50
E. Guziewicz, T. Durakiewicz, J.J. Joyce, and C.G. Olson	Localized and itinerant 5f states in actinide materials as seen by photoemission spectroscopy	L11	53
A. Gourrier, C. Riekel, and J. Doucet	Revealing the nanostructure of biological materials using scanning x-ray imaging with SAXS contrast	L12 ext	54
B. Palosz, E. Grzanka, S. Gierlotka, and S. Stelmakh	Nanocrystals under high pressure	L13	57
T. Tschentscher	Scientific applications of x-ray free-electron laser sources	L14 ext	58
T.W. Wysokinski, D. Chapman, E. Hallin, and M. Renier	Developing modern Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Facility at the synchrotron – challenges and unknowns	L15	60
P. Grochulski, M. Fodje, N. Strynadka, and L. Delbaere	Towards full automation at the Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility	L16	61
P. Piszora, W. Nowicki, J. Darul, S. Carlson, and Y. Cerenius	In-situ high-pressure observation of Jahn-Teller effect in lithium-manganese oxides	L17	62
J.B. Pelka, R. Sobierajski, W. Paszkowicz, J. Krzywinski, D. Klinger, M. Jurek, D. Zymierska, A. Wawro, L. Juha, V. Hajkova, H. Wabnitz, S. Toleikis, T. Tschentscher, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, R. London, S. Hau-Riege, C. Riekel, R. Davies, M. Burghammer, E. Dynowska, W. Szuszkiewicz, W. Caliebe, and R. Nietubyc	Damage of solids exposed to intense XUV free electron laser single shots. Post-situ characterization by x-ray microdiffraction, optical microscopy and AFM	L18	63
H. Grigoriew	Non-typical, including structural transition, gelation process of monosaccharides	L19 ext	64
C.M. Schneider, I. Krug, M. Müller, F. Matthes, S. Cramm, F. Wegelin, A. Oelsner, S.A. Nepijko, A. Krasyuk, C.S. Fadley, and G. Schönhense	Investigating spintronics thin film systems with synchrotron radiation	L20 ext	66
P. Glatzel	Hard x-ray photon-in-photon-out spectroscopy with lifetime resolution – of XAS, XES, RIXSS and HERFD	L21 ext	69
J. Hölsä, M. Kirm, T. Laamanen, M. Lastusaari, and J. Niittykoski	Synchrotron radiation studies of persistent luminescence materials	L22	72
T. Tyliszczak	Application of scanning transmission x-ray microscopy in natural science	L23	73
E. Welter, K. Hansen, C. Reckleben, and I. Diehl	A monolithic 7 cell silicon drift detector module for x-ray spectroscopy	L24 ext	74
I.A. Kowalik, B.J. Kowalski, M. Sawicki, M. Pietrzyk, J. Sadowski, E. Łusakowska, I. Grzegory, and S. Porowski	Electronic structure and magnetic properties of self-organized MnSb and MnAs dots grown by MBE on GaN surface	L25 ext	77
M.A. Pietrzyk, B.J. Kowalski, B.A. Orlowski, W. Knoff, T. Story, and R.L. Johnson	Comparison of the valence band of the Mn/GeTe, Mn/GeMnTe and Mn/GeEuTe layers	L26 ext	79
A. Kubala-Kukuś, D. Banaś, W. Cao, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Hoszowska, Y. Kayser, M. Pajek, J. Szlachetko, M. Szlachetko, M. Salomé, and J. Susini	Application of a high-resolution grazing emission x-ray fluorescence in material sciences	L27	81
B. Ravel, S. Slimmer, X. Meng, and Y. Lu	EXAFS studies of the metal binding site in catalytic DNA sensors	L28	82
C. Meneghini and S. Mobilio	Recent advances in x-ray absorption spectroscopy	L29	83
C. Bressler, R. Abela, and M. Chergui	Femtosecond and picosecond x-ray spectroscopy studies	L30 ext	84
R. Belkhou	X-PEEM nanospectroscopy applied to nanomagnetism	L31 ext	87
M.W. Haverkort	Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy and magnetic circular and linear dichroism in thin films	L32	90
E.A. Görlich	Proposed technical concepts and time scenario for Polish Synchrotron Light Source	L33	91
J.M. Michalik, M. Sikora, Cz. Kapusta, J.M. De Teresa, and O. Mathon	XMCD in the Cr-Re and Fe-Re based double perovskite at high pulsed magnetic fields	L34	92
M. Sikora, C. Adelhelm, M. Balden, K. Schneider, Cz. Kapusta, and P. Glatzel	Nanocrystalization in vanadium doped carbon films studied by means of x-ray emission spectroscopy	L35	93
M.T. Klepka, K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, and I.N. Demchenko	XAFS determination of local atomic arrangement of iron in Fe-chitosan complexes	L36 ext	94
D.A. Zając, K. Pacławski, Cz. Kapusta, and K. Fitzner	X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of platinum chloride complex ions in aqueous solutions	L37	96
M.S. Walczak, K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, A. Wolska, M. Sikora, A. Sienkiewicz, L. Suárez, A. Kosar, M.J. Bellemare, and D.S. Bohle	XANES and EXAFS studies of malarial pigment’s substitutes in reaction with antimalarial drug	L38	97
A.N. Fitch	High resolution powder diffraction	L39 ext	98
D. Rolles	Imaging nanoscale objects by femtosecond x-ray diffraction with a soft-x-ray free electron laser	L40	101
G. Vankó	Temperature and pressure-induced spin-state transitions: Applications of high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy	L41 ext	102
K. Polewski	Temporal structure of SR – application to study biomolecules in UV and visible range	L42	105
A. Burian	Determination of partial structure factors using a third generation synchrotron source: \ind-Se amorphous films	L43	106
ISSRNS 2008: Poster presentations
W. Olszewski, K. Szymański, P. Zaleski, and D.A. Zając	EXAFS analysis of Fe2+ water and acetone based solution	P1	107
D.A. Zając, Z.T. Lalowicz, A. Birczyński, and A.M. Szymocha	X-ray absorption spectroscopy for partially deuterated ammonium hexachloropalladate	P2 ext	108
E. Wierzbicka, J. Gronkowski, M. Lefeld-Sosnowska, and J. Härtwig	White beam synchrotron radiation and conventional x-ray topography of GdCOB:Y crystal	P3	110
A. Malinowska, M. Lefeld-Sosnowska, K. Wieteska, W. Wierzchowski, W. Graeff, and A. Pajączkowska	X-ray topographic studies of crystal lattice defects in Ca0.25Sr0.75NdAlO4 single crystal	P4	111
I.A. Kowalik, E. Guziewicz, Ł. Wachnicki, K. Kopalko, A. Wójcik, E. Łusakowska, and M. Godlewski	Electronic structure of Mn deposited ZnMnO films grown by ALD technique – a resonant-photoemission-spectroscopy study	P5	112
T. Tataryn, D. Savytskii, L. Vasylechko, D. Trots, and U. Bismayer	Crystal and twin structures of the ZrO2:Sc2O3 crystals	P6	113
H. Vita, T. Zandt, L. Dudy, C. Janowitz, and R. Manzke	BEST – Beamline for Education and Scientific Training – a new VUV beamline at BESSY II	P7	114
T.V. Basyuk, T. Tataryn, L.O. Vasylechko, S. Fadyeev, I.I. Syvorotka, D. Trots, and R. Niewa	Phase and structural behaviour of the PrAlO3-LaAlO3 pseudo-binary system	P8	115
G. Tatoń, E. Rokita, A. Wróbel, F. Beckmann, P. Thor, and M. Worek	Microtomography of renal calculi	P9 ext	116
P. Romanowski, J. Bak-Misiuk, E. Dynowska, A. Misiuk, J.Z. Domagala, and W. Caliebe	Effect of annealing on the structural properties of Si:Mn	P10	118
S. Mickevičius, S. Grebinskij, V. Bondarenka, H. Tvardauskas, M. Senulis, V. Lisauskas, K. Sliužienë, and B.A. Orlowski	Electronic structure and hydro-oxidation of LaNiO3-δ thin films	P11	119
M. Brancewicz, A. Andrejczuk, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, L. Dobrzyński, E. Żukowski, and S. Kaprzyk	Electron momentum density of hexagonal magnesium studied by high resolution Compton scattering	P12	120
R. Bacewicz, W. Zalewski, M. Wierzbicki, S. Schorr, and B. Korzun	XANES of Mn in CuIIIS2 (III = Al, Ga, In) chalcopyrites	P13	121
J. Darul, W. Nowicki, and P. Piszora	Preparation and diffraction studies of polycrystalline Cu-Fe materials	P14	122
R. Nietubyć, E. Czerwosz, R. Diduszko, and M. Kozłowski	Short range order in Pd and PdO nanoparticles embedded in carbonaceous matrix studied with the XAFS spectroscopy	P15	123
W. Szczerba, M. Sikora, P. Chometowski, Cz. Kapusta, D.A. Zając, C. Marquina, D. Serrate, and M.R. Ibarra	XAFS study of surface oxidised Fe particles	P16	124
W.K. Wierzchowski, K. Wieteska, A. Turos, W. Graeff, R. Ratajczak, G. Gawlik, and J. Jagielski	Strain profiles in 6H SiC crystals implanted with 160 keV H+ ions	P17	125
P. Seremak-Peczkis, K. Schneider, W. Zajączkowski, Cz. Kapusta, D.A. Zając, P. Pasierb, E. Drożdż-Cieśla, and M. Rękas	XAFS study of BaCe1-xTixO3 protonic solid electrolytes	P18	126
K. Schneider, Cz. Kapusta, D.A. Zając, C.I. Marquina, and M.R. Ibarra	XAS study of carbon coated Fe and Fe3O4 derived nanoparticles	P19	127
K. Schneider, A. Padoł, M. Sikora, Cz. Kapusta, K. Michalow, T. Graule, A. Heel, M. Radecka, M. Rekas, and D.A. Zając	XAFS study of Mo and w doped TiO2 nanopowders	P20	128
B.A. Orlowski, B.J. Kowalski, E. Lusakowska, I.A. Kowalik, M.A. Pietrzyk, E. Guziewicz, E. Nossarzewska-Orlowska, and R.L. Johnson	Microscopic and resonant photoemission study of Si\Gd	P21 ext	129
B.A. Orlowski, M.A. Pietrzyk, V. Osinniy, M. Szot, E. Lusakowska, K. Grasza, and R.L. Johnson	Photoemission study of SiC (0001) surface with deposited Mn atoms	P22	131
K. Pacławski, D.A. Zając, K. Fitzner, and Cz. Kapusta	XAS studies of the reaction of gold(III) complex ions with the sodium hydroxide and glucose in acidic and alkaline aqueous solution	P23	132
J. Gaca, J. Gronkowski, A. Jasik, K. Pierściński, M. Tokarczyk, and M. Wojcik	Determination of lateral inhomogeneity of the chemical composition profile of AlAs/GaAs distributed Bragg reflectors grown by MBE on (100)-oriented GaAs substrate	P24	133
J.B. Pelka	XRADMED – biomedical facility for diagnostics and therapy at Polish synchrotron in Cracow: A conceptual design	P25	134
E. Dynowska, W. Szuszkiewicz, J.Z. Domagala, E. Janik, T. Wojtowicz, and W. Caliebe	The crystallographic structure of catalytically grown ZnTe and ZnMgTe nanowires	P26 ext	135
A. Misiuk, K. Wieteska, J. Bak-Misiuk, W. Wierzchowski, P. Romanowski, A. Wnuk, B. Surma, W. Graeff, and M. Prujszczyk	Defects in Si-Ge annealed under high hydrostatic pressure	P27	137
E. Piskorska-Hommel, A. Wolska, I.N. Demchenko, J.I. Flege, R. Hildebrand, T. Yamaguchi, and D. Hommel	Structural studies of wide-gap quantum dots based on InGaN	P28	138
R. Hildebrand, T. Schmidt, A. Zargham, C. Kruse, K. Otte, D. Hommel, and J. Falta	XRR investigations of II-VI and III-nitride based DBR structures, multilayers and superlattices	P29	139
A. Wolska, K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, M.T. Klepka, J. Sadowski, E. Holub-Krappe, A. Persson, and D. Arvanitis	X-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism on MnSb layers grown by MBE	P30 ext	140
M. Wasiucionek, R. Bacewicz, J. Antonowicz, J.E. Garbarczyk, and P. Jóźwiak	A Fe-XANES study of amorphous analogs of phospho-olivines LixFePO4	P31	142
A. Wolska, B.J. Kowalski, M. Pietrzyk, W. Knoff, and T. Story	XAFS study of the Ge1-xEuxTe and Ge1-xMnxTe thin layers	P32 ext	143
R. Sobierajski, M. Jurek, D. Klinger, J. Krzywinski, J.B. Pełka, L. Juha, J. Chalupský, J. Cihelka, V. Hajkova, U. Jastrow, S. Toleikis, H. Wabnitz, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, N. Stojanovic, S. Hau Riege, R. London, and A.R. Khorsand	Interaction of intense ultrashort XUV pulses with silicon	P33	145
D. Klinger, R. Sobierajski, M. Jurek, J. Krzywinski, J.B. Pelka, D. Żymierska, J. Chalupský, L. Juha, V. Hájková, J. Cihelka, T. Burian, L. Vyąín, H. Wabnitz, K. Tiedtke, S. Toleikis, T. Tschentscher, R. London, S. Hau-Riege, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, N. Stojanovic, J. Hajdu, A.R. Khorsand, and A.J. Gleeson	Laser ablation of amorphous SiO2 by ultra-short pulses of XUV free electron laser	P34 ext	146
M.T. Klepka, R. Minikayev, K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, A. Wolska, I.N. Demchenko, and M. Jablonski	Natural minerals – the major and minor elements chemical bonding	P35	148
J. Bak-Misiuk, J.Z. Domagala, E. Dynowska, P. Romanowski, J. Sadowski, A. Misiuk, and W. Caliebe	Creation of MnAs nanoclusters at processing of GaMnAs	P36	149
J. Bak-Misiuk, E. Dynowska, P. Romanowski, J.Z. Domagala, J. Sadowski, R. Jakiela, and W. Caliebe	Structural properties of MnSb layers grown on GaAs substrate	P37	150
B.J. Kowalski, M.A. Pietrzyk, W. Knoff, J. Sadowski, J. Adell, and T. Story	Angle-resolved photoemission study of GeTe and Ge1-xMnxTe	P38	151
K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, A. Wolska, J. Libera, M.T. Klepka, J. Sadowski, E. Holub-Krappe, A. Persson, and D. Arvanitis	Ga interstitial site occupation by Mn atoms in GaAs: EXAFS and XANES evidence	P39 ext	152
W. Paszkowicz, P. Piszora, Y. Cerenius, S. Carlson, and R. Minikayev	Silver behenate under pressure: A preliminary study	P40	154
E. Werner-Malento, W. Paszkowicz, J. Fidelus, M. Godlewski, and S. Yatsunenko	Structure modification of Pr-doped ZrO2-Y2O3 after heat treatment at 1200oC	P41	155
S. Abd El All and G.A. El-Shobaky	Effect of γ-rays on the structure and electrical properties of ZnO/TiO2 ceramics	P42	156
M. Kozak, A. Wlodarczyk, and A. Dobek	SAXS studies of d(ttaggg)4 oligomer in solution	P43	157
M. Kozak and M. Taube	SAXS-WAXS studies of the low resolution structure in solution of glucose isomerase from streptomyces rubiginosus	P44	158
M. Kozak, K. Szpotkowski, A. Kozak, R. Zieliński, D. Wieczorek, M.J. Gajda, and L. Domka	The FTIR and SAXS studies of influence of a morpholine derivatives on the DMPC-based biological membrane systems	P45	159
M. Kozak, K. Szpotkowski, A. Kozak, R. Zieliński, D. Wieczorek, M.J. Gajda, and L. Domka	The effect of selected cationic surfactant on the structure of hydrated DMPC studied by small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS)	P46	160
II NCPS-B: IInd National Conference Polish Synchrotron – Beamlines
	II NCPS-B: Information		161
II NCPS-B: Presentations
M. Zubek, B. Mielewska, M. Dampc, M.R.F. Siggel-King, and G.C. King	Threshold photoelectron spectra of tetrahydrofuran and α-tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol over the energy range 9 eV to 30 eV	C1	164
J. Szlachetko, D. Banaś, W. Cao, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Hoszowska, Y. Kayser, A. Kubala-Kukuś, M. Pajek, M. Szlachetko, M. Salomé, and J. Susini	Resonant Raman scattering in synchrotron radiation based x-ray fluorescence analysis	C2	165
S. Rabiej	Investigations of the internal structure and thermal properties of the homogeneous ethylene-1-octene copolymers	C3	166
A.J. Wojtowicz	UV and VUV spectroscopy of rare earth activated wide bandgap materials	C4	167
A. Pawlak	Investigation of cavitation during deformation of polymers by SAXS studies	C5	168
A. Kuczumow	Some remarks on W2 line construction derived from the experiments on biomaterials in LURE and HASYLAB	C6	169
W. Paszkowicz	On Polish contribution to the use of synchrotron sources in natural sciences	C7	170
M. Sikora, K. Knizek, Cz. Kapusta, Z. Jirak, V. Prochazka, D. Rybicki, and P. Glatzel	Spin state evolution of transition metals in the Co doped manganese perovskites	C8	171
H. Fiedorowicz	Microprocessing polymers using synchrotron and laser plasma EUV sources	C9	172
G. Vankó and F.M.F. de Groot	Resonant x-ray emission spectroscopy unveils fine details of cobalt 1s pre-edges	C10	173
J. Bąk-Misiuk, J. Domagała, J. Gronkowski, M. Leszczyński, G. Kowalski, A. Shalimov, W. Wierzchowski, and K. Wieteska	Line PLM5A: X-ray diffraction topography and high resolution diffraction of monocrystaline materials	C11 ext	174
J.T. Bonarski and L. Tarkowski	Proposal of synchrotron beamline PLM6 “X-DAS”	C12	176
E. Czerwosz and M. Kozłowski	Investigation of work function of different materials using a synchrotron beamline	C13	177
K. Lawniczak-Jablonska	The short overview of the applications of x-ray absorption spectroscopy for material characterization at Institute of Physics in Warsaw	C14	178
J.B. Pelka	Biomedical facility at Polish synchrotron in Cracow	C15	179
M. Kozak	The applications of small angle scattering of synchrotron radiation in structural biology	C16	180
	Index of authors		181
	Index of keywords		184
	Index of laboratories and beamlines		187