Ultra-high-speed indirect x-ray imaging system with versatile spatiotemporal sampling capabilities.

A new generation of cameras has made ultra-high-speed x-ray imaging at synchrotron light sources a reality, revealing never-before-seen details of sub-surface transient phenomena. We introduce a versatile indirect imaging system capable of capturing-for the first time-hundreds of sequential x-ray pulses in 16-bunch mode at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, recording at 5.68 Mfps over dozens of microseconds, with an effective exposure of 100 ps.

Corrigendum: Probing the early stages of shock-induced chondritic meteorite formation at the mesoscale.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/srep45206.

Probing the early stages of shock-induced chondritic meteorite formation at the mesoscale.

Chondritic meteorites are fragments of asteroids, the building blocks of planets, that retain a record of primordial processes. Important in their early evolution was impact-driven lithification, where a porous mixture of millimetre-scale chondrule inclusions and sub-micrometre dust was compacted into rock. In this Article, the shock compression of analogue precursor chondrite material was probed using state of the art dynamic X-ray radiography.

Evaluating scintillator performance in time-resolved hard X-ray studies at synchrotron light sources.

The short pulse duration, small effective source size and high flux of synchrotron radiation is ideally suited for probing a wide range of transient deformation processes in materials under extreme conditions. In this paper, the challenges of high-resolution time-resolved indirect X-ray detection are reviewed in the context of dynamic synchrotron experiments. In particular, the discussion is targeted at two-dimensional integrating detector methods, such as those focused on dynamic radiography and diffraction experiments.