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The x-ray microscope XM-1
is operated since
1994 by the Center
for X-Ray Optics at the Advanced
Light Source.
It provides high spatial resolution
(down to 15nm) imaging of samples which are transparent for soft X-rays.
Its user-friendly design allows a high throughput of samples
in a wide variety of applications such as nanomagnetism,
materials
and environmental
science and biological
applications.
XM-1 is modeled after a conventional light microscope. The light we use
is x-ray radiation emitted from a bending magnet, the lenses are zone
plates, which are fabricated by the Nanofabrication
Laboratory of CXRO and the image
is formed onto a CCD detector.
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