J. Phys. IV France 104 (2003) 103
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:200300039

Twinmic: A European twin microscope station combining full-field imaging and scanning microscopy

B. Kaulich¹, D. Bacescu¹, D. Cocco¹, J. Susini², M. Salomé², O. Dhez², C. David³, T. Weitkamp³, E. Di Fabrizio⁴, S. Cabrini⁴, G. Morrison⁵, P. Charalambous⁵, J. Thieme⁶, T. Wilhein⁷, J. Kovac⁸, M. Podnar⁸ and M. Kiskinova<sup>1

1</sup>  ELETTRA-Sincrotrone Trieste, S.S. 14, km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34012 Trieste, Italy
²  FSRF, BP. 220, 38043 Grenoble cedex, France
³  Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
⁴  TASC/INFM, S.S. 14, km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34012 Trieste, Italy
⁵  King's College London, Department of Physics, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.
⁶  Institute for X-Ray Physics, University of Göttingen, Geiststrasse 11, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
⁷  RheinAhrCampus Remagen, Suedallee 2, 52424 Koblenz-Remagen, Germany
⁸  ITPO, Teslova 30, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract
The two types of X-ray microscopes, scanning and full-field imaging, have different but complementary capabilities in term of image acquisition and spectroscopies. The novel approach used for the first time in the EU RT&D project "Twinmic" (HPRI-CT-2001-50024) aims at building of a multipurpose end-station combining scanning and full-field imaging microscopes with easy switch between the two modes. The twin microscope is expected to achieve the state-of-art performance of both microscopy modes in fast imaging, tomography and spectroscopy ( -XANES/XRF), allowing new class of experiments in exploration of heterogeneous phenomena of the matter at mesoscopic length scales.

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