Descrizione del progetto
Processi dinamici di imaging a una risoluzione maggiore grazie alla microscopia 4D a raggi X
Si percepisce una mancanza di strumenti diagnostici efficienti per l’osservazione di fenomeni ultraveloci su piccole scale per applicazioni moderne quali la produzione additiva. Il progetto MHz-TOMOSCOPY, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di battere un nuovo record nella microscopia 4D a raggi X, conseguendo risoluzioni spaziali e temporali più elevate. Avvalendosi di fonti di raggi X a elevata luminosità e di molteplici sonde a raggi X, i ricercatori intendono visualizzare e caratterizzare dinamiche che raggiungono, per la prima volta su scala micrometrica, velocità fino a qualche km/s. L’imaging in 4D di campioni opachi a velocità di MHz aprirà nuove finestre di comprensione in molti ambiti, in particolare in quelli in cui i fenomeni ultraveloci sono stati relegati alla sfera delle simulazioni e delle speculazioni.
Obiettivo
Modern enabling technologies, such as additive manufacturing or cavitation peening used in the aerospace and automotive industries, suffer from a lack of diagnostic tools. To date, one cannot provide relevant volumetric information about the fast processes involved. The realization of this project will break the current limits in fast, 4D X-ray microscopy by three orders of magnitude. It will be possible to visualize and characterize dynamics reaching velocities up to ~km/s for the first time with micron-scale resolutions. Instead of sample rotation, we will generate multiple X-ray probes and virtually rotate them around the sample to obtain with a single exposure multiple angular views simultaneously. Using modern X-ray sources with very high brilliance, each such 3D frame may be sampled at kHz rates at synchrotrons and even MHz rates at X-ray free-electron laser sources. This will unlock access to 4D observation of processes with velocities never before possible. 4D imaging of opaque samples at MHz rates enables insights across a range of sectors and industries. In cavitation peening, an industrially relevant phenomenon for aerospace and new materials, we have no volumetric information, due to its high speed. This breakthrough will be achieved by the construction of a prototype that will demonstrate MHz rate tomoscopy at the European XFEL, taking advantage of world-unique European laboratories for the benefit of industry. Observing MHz-fast phenomena in opaque samples enables an entirely new branch of research, with possibilities for all sectors where such fast phenomena has, to date, been left to simulations and speculations. For industry and society, it would open new possibilities in the development and management of several techniques, including laser driven additive manufacturing, shock waves, fractures, evaporation, light alloy metallurgy, fast fluid dynamics, and cavitation phenomena.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesclassical mechanicsfluid mechanicsfluid dynamics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsmicroscopy
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineering
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physics
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