Pushing the limits of microfocus X-ray sealed-tube sources for crystallography

Abstract

The structure determination on ever smaller and weakly diffracting crystals is one of the biggest challenges in the development of inhouse X-ray analytical equipment for chemical and biological crystallography, which continuously raises the requirements for modern X-ray sources and detectors. Nowadays, modern low power microfocus X-ray sealed tube sources define the state-of-theart for most in-house X-ray diffraction equipment, as they deliver intensities in the range of rotating anodes, yet maintain all the comfort of a sealed tube system.