Phasing tiny crystals

Jianwei Miao; Jose A Rodriguez

doi:10.1107/S2052252513034507

Phasing tiny crystals

IUCrJ. 2013 Dec 31;1(Pt 1):3-4. doi: 10.1107/S2052252513034507. eCollection 2014 Jan 1.

Authors

Jianwei Miao¹, Jose A Rodriguez²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
² Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California , Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Abstract

For tiny crystals, their diffraction intensities at and between the Bragg peaks become measurable due to the limited number of the unit cells, which can in principle be used to directly phase the crystal structures.

Keywords: X-ray free electron lasers; coherent diffraction imaging; oversampling; phase retrieval.