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Acoustic Funnel and Buncher for Nanoparticle Injection

Zheng Li1,2,*,†, Liangliang Shi3,‡, Lushuai Cao4, Zhengyou Liu5, and Jochen Küpper2,4,6,§

  • 1Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 2Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
  • 3Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
  • 4The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Universitüt Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 5Department of Physics, Wuhan University, 430072 Wuhan, China
  • 6Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

  • *zheng.li@desy.de
  • †Present address: School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
  • ‡Present address: Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland.
  • §jochen.kuepper@cfel.de
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Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 064036 – Published 14 June, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.064036

Abstract

Acoustics-based techniques are investigated to focus and bunch nanoparticle beams. This process allows us to overcome the prominent problem of the longitudinal and transverse mismatch of particle-stream and x-ray-beam size in single-particle and single-molecule imaging at x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). It also enables synchronized injection of particle streams at kilohertz repetition rates. Transverse focusing concentrates the particle flux to the size of the (sub)micrometer X-ray focus. In the longitudinal direction, focused acoustic waves can be used to bunch the particle to the same repetition rate as the x-ray pulses. The acoustic manipulation is based on simple mechanical recoil effects and could be advantageous over light-pressure-based methods, which rely on absorption. The acoustic equipment is easy to implement and can be conveniently inserted into current XFEL endstations. With the proposed method, data collection times could be reduced by a factor of 104. This work does not just provide an efficient method for acoustic manipulation of streams of arbitrary gas-phase particles, but also opens up wide avenues for acoustics-based particle optics.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 064036– Published 14 June, 2019
  • Received 27 March 2018
  • Revised 8 March 2019
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