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The outreach team here at CHESS has been taking its show cross-country while the cold finally settles on the Northeast.

Organic electronics are a commercially well-established technology in the markets of lighting and displays. But harvesting the benefits of organics for many other electronic applications — especially the reverse process of converting light to electricity, often involves new challenges on materials properties, quality, and our fundamental understanding of how organic electronic thin films work.

CHESS congratulates long-time user Professor Christopher K. Ober for winning two awards from the Society of Photopolymer Science and Technology – SPST: the Photopolymer Science and Technology Award (No.151100) and the Outstanding Achievement Award 2015 [1].

June will be a busy time as our annual CHESS User’s Meeting June 7th 2016 kicks off a series of six science workshops.

X-rays have long been the world-leading tool for crystallography, which allows researchers to make highly accurate atomic-scale maps of the perfect repeating structures that occur in crystals.

Hour of Code is a global movement that encourages students of all ages to try a one-hour introduction to computer science and the basics of coding through fun block tutorials.

The CHESS monochromatic x-ray topography capability was reported on this summer at SRI-2015. The system (shown schematically right), typically available 6 weeks per year based on user demand at station C1, consists of a beam expanding monochromator, 6-circle diffractometer, and CHESS designed CMOS camera with real time sample-alignment capability.

Motivated to create a technology that could monitor, in real time, the full volumetric beam properties of an incident x-ray beam, a group of researchers from SUNY Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Case Western Reserve University have invented, fabricated and tested a new pixelated diamond x-ray beam “window” detector that could promise to revolutionize beamline design.