{"id":246011,"date":"2026-10-27T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/single-optical-element-combines-soft-x-ray-imaging-and-spectroscopy"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:42:29","slug":"single-optical-element-combines-soft-x-ray-imaging-and-spectroscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/single-optical-element-combines-soft-x-ray-imaging-and-spectroscopy","title":{"rendered":"Single optical element combines soft X-ray imaging and spectroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An international research team from Germany, Switzerland and Japan has demonstrated in a recent study that a single reflection zone plate (RZP) can perform both soft X-ray imaging and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) mapping. The approach could simplify future instruments that need to determine both where structures are located in a material and how their electronic properties vary.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-34-16-30262\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Optics Express<\/i>, was carried out at the P04 beamline of the PETRA III synchrotron radiation source at DESY in Hamburg. The researchers used an RZP, a precisely nanostructured reflective optic that simultaneously focuses and disperses soft X-rays. Conventional X-ray imaging provides spatial information about a sample, whereas spectroscopy reveals its electronic structure, chemical bonding and excited states.<\/p>\n<p>Combining the two capabilities usually requires several optical components and demanding alignment procedures. In the new work, the RZP acts as an all-in-one element for reflection, focusing, imaging and spectral dispersion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team from Germany, Switzerland and Japan has demonstrated in a recent study that a single reflection zone plate (RZP) can perform both soft X-ray imaging and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) mapping. The approach could simplify future instruments that need to determine both where structures are located in a material and how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1965,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mapping","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}