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The use of X-ray synchrotron radiation for structural research in biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

H. B. Stuhrmann
H. B. Stuhrmann
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg Outstation, c/o DESY, 2000 Hamburg 52, Notkestraβe 85, Germany
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Synchrotron radiation is intense electromagnetic radiation with a continuous spectral distribution emitted by high-energy electron (or positron) synchrotrons or storage rings in the visible, vacuum ultraviolet and X-ray regions. For a long time only an unwanted but inevitable by-product of ring accelerators in elementary particle research, synchrotron radiation is now becoming a most widely used tool in atomic, molecular and solid-state spectroscopy, surface physics, structural research on solids, soft X-ray microscopy, lithography. It is not yet clear how large the field of applications really is nor which line of research will prove to be the most fruitful one in the long run.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 71 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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