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DOE OSTI2018

Peculiarities of Forming a Multiband Transmission Function Based on Multifrequency Acousto-Optic Diffraction

An analytical solution for the transmission function of noncoherent wideband radiation is obtained under acousto-optic (AO) filtering using a discrete set of monochromatic AO waves with a small spectral overlap. We studied characteristics of the AO transformation of a continuous spectrum of noncoherent radiation into a given set of discrete narrow bands of spectral transmission by excitation of a discrete set of sound frequencies. We carried out the analysis of transmission functions of individual channels taking into account a partial overlap of their spectra and possible intermodulation distortions. It is shown that a stationary value of the root-mean-square light power is found at the electronic output due to the photoelectric transformation and detecting diffracted light. Based on this, a necessary stationary, multiband, and nearly equidistant transmission function of a device can be formed by using a relevant spectrum of acoustic excitation. Peculiarities of this way of forming the multiband transmission function are revealed: the limitation of diffraction efficiency for an individual channel, the possibility of decoupling side lobes of adjacent channels, etc. A multiband acousto-optic filter (MAOF) was simulated that was based on a paratellurite monocrystal (TeO{sub 2}), which was previously used for experimental optical encoding. The theoretical and experimental results are in gratifying agreement.

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DOE OSTI2018

Harmonic Kinoform Lens: Diffraction Efficiency and Chromatism

Sawtooth microstructures with a relief depth significantly exceeding the central wavelength of the working spectral range are studied within the scalar and strict diffraction theories. The possibility of maintaining high diffraction efficiency, irrespective of the working spectral bandwidth and at allowed angles of incidence, which can reach 45° or more, is shown. It is also shown that the chromatism of such lenses is controlled in a very wide range and can be less than that of the lightest crown glasses.

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DOE OSTI2017

Purification, isolation, crystallization, and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of the BTB domain of the centrosomal protein 190 from Drosophila melanogaster

The spatial organization of the genome is controlled by a special class of architectural proteins, including proteins containing BTB domains that are able to dimerize or multimerize. The centrosomal protein 190 is one of such architectural proteins. The purification, crystallization, and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of the BTB domain of the centrosomal protein 190 are reported. The crystallization conditions were found by the vapor-diffusion technique. The crystals diffracted to 1.5 Å resolution and belonged to sp. gr. P322{sub 1}. The structure was solved by the molecular replacement method. The structure refinement is currently underway.

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DOE OSTI2017

Preliminary small-angle X-ray scattering and X-ray diffraction studies of the BTB domain of lola protein from Drosophila melanogaster

The Drosophila genome has several dozens of transcription factors (TTK group) containing ВТВ domains assembled into octamers. The LOLA protein belongs to this family. The purification, crystallization, and preliminary X-ray diffraction and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) studies of the BTB domain of this protein are reported. The crystallization conditions were found by the vapor-diffusion technique. A very low diffraction resolution (8.7 Å resolution) of the crystals was insufficient for the determination of the threedimensional structure of the BTB domain. The SAXS study demonstrated that the BTB domain of the LOLA protein exists as an octamer in solution.

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DOE OSTI2018

Crystallization and Preliminary X-ray Diffraction Study of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase from the Thermophilic Bacterium Thermus thermophilus Strain HB27

Recombinant purine nucleoside phosphorylase from the thermophilic Thermus thermophilus strain encoded by the TT-C0194 gene was purified to homogeneity. The crystallization conditions for the enzyme were found by the vapor-diffusion technique. The crystals of the enzyme suitable for X-ray diffraction were grown under microgravity conditions by the capillary counter-diffusion method. The crystals belong to sp. gr. P2{sub 1}2{sub 1}2{sub 1} and have the following unit-cell parameters: a = 89.9 Å, b = 121.0 Å, c = 215.7 Å, α = β = γ = 90°. The X-ray diffraction data set suitable for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of purine nucleoside phosphorylase was collected from the grown crystals at the SPring-8 synchrotron facility to 2.5 Å resolution.

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DOE OSTI2018

Modification of Graphene on a Copper Grid during Femtosecond Laser Irradiation: Electron Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy Studies

The modification of a graphene sheet, which was fabricated by chemical vapor deposition on a close-meshed copper grid, during powerful femtosecond laser irradiation is studied. The process of long-term irradiation of a sample in vacuum is found to be accompanied by (1) breaking carbon bonds, which is indicated by a decrease in the intensities of the reflections corresponding to electron-beam diffraction by graphene and (2) the formation of new products, which is indicated by the appearance of new diffraction rings and a change in the Raman spectrum of the sample. The compositions of the forming chemical compounds are analyzed. Copper oxides Cu{sub 2}O and CuO are shown to form predominantly on the sample surface as a result of the chemical reactions induced by powerful femtosecond laser pulses.

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DOE OSTI2019

Neutron Spin Rotation at Laue Diffraction in a Weakly Deformed Transparent Crystal with No Center of Symmetry

The effect of neutron spin rotation at Laue diffraction in a weakly deformed neutron-transparent noncentrosymmetric crystal has been described theoretically and studied experimentally. The effect is due to the bending of a Kato trajectory of the neutron in the deformed crystal. At a certain type of deformation, one of two neutron waves excited at Laue diffraction, which propagate in opposite crystal fields in the crystal with no center of symmetry, leaves the crystal. As a result, the spin of the remaining neutron wave is rotated by a certain angle with respect to initial direction due to the interaction of the magnetic moment of a moving neutron with the crystalline electric field. This effect is absent in an undeformed perfect crystal, where only the depolarization of a beam occurs because both waves in opposite electric fields have the same amplitude. A method has been developed for controlled deforming the perfect single crystal by creating a temperature gradient in it. Thereby, a new possibility of measuring electric fields acting on a neutron in noncentrosymmetric crystals, as well as a method of controlling these fields in experiments on studying the fundamental properties of the neutron, has been implemented.

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DOE OSTI2018

Intensity Distribution of the Three-Wave Diffraction from Dislocation Epitaxial Layers in the Reciprocal Space

The three-wave X-ray diffraction in strongly disordered epitaxial layers of GaN and ZnO is experimentally investigated. The charts of the intensity distribution in the reciprocal space are plotted in coordinates q{sub θ} and q{sub ϕ} for the most intensive three-wave combination (1010)/(1011) by means of subsequent θ- and ϕ-scanning. A nontrivial shape of the θ-sections of these contours at a distance from the ϕ center of reflection is revealed; it is different for different samples. For the θ-curves at the center of reflection, we observed a common peak that may be approximated by the Voigt function with a power-low decrease in the intensity at the wings; the decrease law (from–4.5 to–5.0) is found to be considerably greater than that for the similar curves of two-wave diffraction and not depending on the dislocation density and distribution in layers. In some films we observed a coarse-block structure; in addition, it follows from the distribution in the reciprocal space that these blocks are turned with respect to each other around a normal to the surface, which allows us to suggest the existence of low-angle boundaries between them, consisting exclusively of edge dislocations.

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DOE OSTI2018

Optical Anisotropy of Photonic Crystals of Cubic Symmetry Induced by Multiple Diffraction of Light

The optical spectra of Bragg reflection from opal-like photonic crystals under conditions of the resonant enhancement of the multiple diffraction of light have been studied experimentally and theoretically using the photonic crystal structures prepared of monodisperse polystyrene globules. It is shown that the reflection signal registered in mutually orthogonal configurations of the polarizer and analyzer is related to the intrinsic optical anisotropy of the crystals and is a specific manifestation of the multiple Bragg diffraction in three-dimensional photonic crystals.

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DOE OSTI2018

Electron-Diffraction Study of the Structure of Epitaxial Graphene Grown by the Method of Thermal Destruction of 6H- and 4H-SiC (0001) in Vacuum

The method of reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) is used for studying the structure of graphene layers formed on the surface of the Si-face of conductive and semi-insulating 6H- and 4H-SiC(0001) substrates by thermal desorption of Si atoms in high vacuum, depending on the temperature and time of sublimating Si atoms as well as depending on the method of preprocessing the substrate surface. Diffraction patterns are recorded in the [1̄21̄0] and [11̄00] crystallographic directions of the substrates. It is found that in all experiments the formation of graphene layers occurs with a rotation of the graphene crystal lattice by 30° relative to the SiC lattice.

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DOE OSTI2018

On the Size Effect for Neutron Diffraction by Two-Phase Structures and Applicability of Composite Standards in Analysis of Residual Austenite in Steels

The possibility of using neutron diffraction in quantitative analysis of residual austenite in steels is investigated. According to the obtained results, some properties of neutron diffraction by two-phase structures remain size-independent, which makes it possible to use large composite standards. It is shown that this approach ensures admissible accuracy without using a priori coefficients.

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DOE OSTI2020

High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy in Materials Science

High-energy diffraction microscopy (HEDM) is an implementation of three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy. HEDM yields maps of internal crystal orientation fields, strain states, grain shapes and locations as well as intragranular orientation distributions, and grain boundary character. Because it is nondestructive in hard materials, notably metals and ceramics, HEDM has been used to study responses of these materials to external fields including high temperature and mechanical loading. Currently available sources and detectors lead to a spatial resolution of ~1 μm and an orientation resolution of <0.1°. With the penetration characteristic of high energies ( E ≥ 50 keV), sample cross-section dimensions of ~1 mm can be studied in materials containing elements across much of the Periodic Table. This review describes hardware and software associated with HEDM as well as examples of applications. Overall, these applications include studies of grain growth, recrystallization, texture development, orientation gradients, deformation twinning, annealing twinning, plastic deformation, and additive manufacturing. We also describe relationships to other X-ray-based methods as well as prospects for further development.

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DOE OSTI2021

Ultrafast Imaging of Molecules with Electron Diffraction

Photoexcited molecules convert light into chemical and mechanical energy through changes in electronic and nuclear structure that take place on femtosecond timescales. Gas phase ultrafast electron diffraction (GUED) is an ideal tool to probe the nuclear geometry evolution of the molecules and complements spectroscopic methods that are mostly sensitive to the electronic state. GUED is a passive probing tool that does not alter the molecular properties during the probing process and is sensitive to the spatial distribution of charge in the molecule, including both electrons and nuclei. Improvements in temporal resolution have enabled GUED to capture coherent nuclear motions in molecules in the excited and ground electronic states with femtosecond and subangstrom resolution. Here we present the basic theory of GUED and explain what information is encoded in the diffraction signal, review how GUED has been used to observe coherent structural dynamics in recent experiments, and discuss the advantages and limitations of the method.

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DOE OSTI2025

Neutron powder diffraction, Mossbauer Spectroscopy and Optical Spectroscopy to study magnetic and nuclear lattices in Fe-based oxychlorides Ca2FeO3Cl, Sr2FeO3Cl and Sr3Fe2O5Cl2

Data for Neutron Diffraction, Mossbauer Spectoscopy and Optical Spectroscopy are contained on all three samples (Ca2FeO3Cl, Sr2FeO3Cl, and Sr3Fe2O5Cl2). Mossbauer data are in the folder "MossbauerSpectroscopy". This contains details of files and examples to read the data. The Optical Spectroscopy are in the folder "AbsorptionData", this contains one file with explanatory headers. The neutron diffraction data are in the "NeutronDiffractionData" folder. The data was collected on the HB-2A powder diffractometer at HFIR. The autoreduced files are corrected using a vanadium standard and are in arbitrary intensity units. The RawData folder contains the uncorrected data with metadata for motor positions and temperature. All measurements were collected with a constant neuton wavelength of 2.41 Angstrom. An excel spreadsheet "NeutronDiffractionData_IPTS-29118_summary" contains details for each scan. Sr3Fe2O5Cl2 data were collected at only room temperature. Ca2FeO3Cl and Sr2FeO3Cl data were collected at 4K and room temperature. The autoreduced .dat fileformat is three columns corresponding to: Two-theta, Intensity and Intensity_error.

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DOE OSTI2021

In Situ High Energy X-ray Diffraction Characterization of Phase Transformations and Mechanical Behaviors in Rapidly Solidified Titanium and Stainless Steel Alloys [Thesis]

Advanced manufacturing techniques like additive manufacturing (AM) have poised themselves to revolutionize metal manufacturing. A wide range of AM techniques are capable of manufacturing metal components with unique, complex geometries and hastening the scientific-engineering-development cycle. Metal AM relies on a layer-by-layer rapid manufacturing process to build components from the substrate up. Rapid solidification is a large departure from traditional metal manufacturing due to its complex physics. Characterization of rapid solidification is difficult, stemming from the small volumes used in AM and the fast dynamics of the process. High energy X-ray diffraction (HEXRD) is a solution to the characterization problems of rapidly solidified alloys and AM. HEXRD can probe small volumes at fast rates and provides a wide range of thermomechanical and kinetic information. This thesis presents the application of HEXRD to rapidly solidified titanium and stainless steel alloys through a series of case studies. In the first two studies, HEXRD is applied to rapidly solidified titanium and stainless steel welds. The materials are characterized for their temperature history, phase changes, kinetics, and microstructural evolution. In the next case study, HEXRD is applied to characterize phase changes in elastocaloric NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) under thermomechanical load. HEXRD, in conjunction with other tools, is used to explain the superior performance of the additively manufactured SMAs. In the final two case studies, HEXRD is used to measure the mechanical response of AM parts with complex geometries; namely, the octet truss lattice. Diffraction reveals a wide range of materials information about the AM microstructure including unexpected phases, texture, and mechanical response to loading. The mechanical results from HEXRD and then compared with theoretical predictions about the performance of octet truss lattices. Summarily, HEXRD is a diverse tool that is poised to address the complex characterization problems of many aspects of the additive manufacturing process.

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DOE OSTI2019

Calibration of X-Ray Diffraction Instruments for Residual-Stress Measurement

The deficiencies of existing standard iron and nickel samples for calibration by means of X-ray diffraction are noted. These standards cannot be used in calibration by magnetic noise recording. A new calibration method based on X-ray diffraction is proposed, using plane samples of the material employed in the manufacture of the actual structures. Theoretical analysis provides the basis for the development of null standards in which a plane sample is deformed by pure flexure or in a cantilever-beam configuration.

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DOE OSTI2022

Intact, Commercial Lithium-Polymer Batteries: Spatially Resolved Grating-Based Interferometry Imaging, Bragg Edge Imaging, and Neutron Diffraction

We survey several neutron imaging and diffraction methods for non-destructive testing and evaluation of intact, commercial lithium-ion batteries. Specifically, far-field interferometry was explored as an option to probe a wide range of autocorrelation lengths within the batteries via neutron imaging. The dark-field interferometry images change remarkably from fresh to worn batteries, and from charged to discharged batteries. When attempting to search for visual evidence of battery degradation, neutron Talbot-Lau grating interferometry exposed battery layering and particle scattering through dark-field imaging. Bragg edge imaging also reveals battery wear and state of charge. Neutron diffraction observed chemical changes between fresh and worn, charged and discharged batteries. However, the utility of these methods, for commercial batteries, is dependent upon battery size and shape, with 19 to 43 mAh prismatic batteries proving most convenient for these experimental methods. This study reports some of the first spatially resolved, small angle scattering (dark-field) images showing battery degradation.

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