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Extra dimension with X-rays

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Materials science has benefited from X-ray imaging at the micrometre scale, but imaging has been restricted to two dimensions. A clever modification takes us into the third dimension.

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Figure 1: Getting the bigger picture using differential-aperture X-ray microscopy.

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Cargill, G. Extra dimension with X-rays. Nature 415, 844–845 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415844a

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