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Revealing Three-Dimensional Structure of an Individual Colloidal Crystal Grain by Coherent X-Ray Diffractive Imaging

A. G. Shabalin, J.-M. Meijer, R. Dronyak, O. M. Yefanov, A. Singer, R. P. Kurta, U. Lorenz, O. Y. Gorobtsov, D. Dzhigaev, S. Kalbfleisch, J. Gulden, A. V. Zozulya, M. Sprung, A. V. Petukhov, and I. A. Vartanyants
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138002 – Published 22 September 2016
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Abstract

We present results of a coherent x-ray diffractive imaging experiment performed on a single colloidal crystal grain. The full three-dimensional (3D) reciprocal space map measured by an azimuthal rotational scan contained several orders of Bragg reflections together with the coherent interference signal between them. Applying the iterative phase retrieval approach, the 3D structure of the crystal grain was reconstructed and positions of individual colloidal particles were resolved. As a result, an exact stacking sequence of hexagonal close-packed layers including planar and linear defects were identified.

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  • Received 27 May 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.138002

© 2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

A. G. Shabalin1,2, J.-M. Meijer3,†, R. Dronyak1, O. M. Yefanov1,‡, A. Singer1,§, R. P. Kurta1,¶, U. Lorenz1, O. Y. Gorobtsov1,4, D. Dzhigaev1,5, S. Kalbfleisch6, J. Gulden1, A. V. Zozulya1, M. Sprung1, A. V. Petukhov3,7, and I. A. Vartanyants1,5,*

  • 1Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
  • 2A.V. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, Leninskii pr. 59, 119333 Moscow, Russia
  • 3Van ’t Hoff laboratory for Physical and Colloid chemistry, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 4NRC Kurchatov Institute, pl. Akademika Kurchatova, Moscow 123182, Russia
  • 5National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe shosse 31, 115409 Moscow, Russia
  • 6Institute for X-Ray Physics, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
  • 7Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands

  • *Corresponding author. ivan.vartaniants@desy.de
  • Present address: Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
  • Present address: Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
  • §Present address: University of California—San Diego, 92093 La Jolla, USA.
  • Present address: European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany.

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Vol. 117, Iss. 13 — 23 September 2016

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