Adjunct Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Associate Director CHESS
281 Wilson Lab, (607) 255-0916,
B.S. 1969 (Seattle Pacific), Ph.D. 1975 (Purdue)
After receiving his doctorate in physics, Bilderback joined Cornell’s Materials Science Center (MSC) in 1975 as research manager of the X-Ray Laboratory. His achievements there included the invention of the real-time back-reflection Laue camera to simplify the x-ray orientation of single crystals [see (www.multiwire.com). Afterwards he helped design and operate the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory for the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). Bilderback is a member of the American Crystallographic Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He has often served on the program committee for the National Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Research. He serves as a consultant to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France and to the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne, Illinois. He is also a member of the Photon Science Committee for the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and for the Nanoprobe Beam-line Advisory Committee at the National Synchrotron Light Source II at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is currently the Cornell University correspondent for Synchrotron Radiation News and is Co-editor of World Publishing Co book series on Synchrotron Radiation. In 1993, he was a co-winner of an R&D 100 Award, in recognition of the development of tapered capillaries for producing micron-sized x-ray beams. Bilderback was the 1998 Compton Award co-winner for the development of cryogenic optics for 3rd generation storage rings. In 2001 he received a Distinguished Alumnus in Science award from Purdue University and in received the 2002 Seattle Pacific University Medallion award (alumnus in science award).
Research Interests
I work as an experimentalist in the use of x-rays to explore the atomic nature of matter using such techniques as x-ray diffraction, x-ray reflectivity and x-ray absorption and emission. My contributions to the emerging field of x-ray optics include the development of the first transmission x-ray mirror and various x-ray focusing systems made from total-reflection x-ray mirrors, multilayers, or Bragg crystals. I am also a developer of synchrotron x-ray sources and their associated microbeam and nanobeam technologies. Currently, we are designing and prototyping an Energy Recovery Linac source of x-rays ( http://erl.chess.cornell.edu/) that will surpass all the current generations of storage rings in producing high spectral brightness and the smallest x-ray nanobeams for research. We are on a quest to make a 1 nm diameter nanobeam at an x-ray energy of 10 keV (about a 1 Angstrom wavelength).
Over the years, I have worked to better ways to cool silicon monochromator crystals with microgroove cooling channels built into the optics - and this quest lead to the discovery that cryogenically-cooling silicon optics has tremendous benefits. Thus many of the first monochromator elements at synchrotron laboratories are cryo-cooled as a result. I am also helping to develop x-ray-sensitive CCD area detectors with many megapixels to improve diffraction-pattern images with the Gruner group in Physics.
I also maintain a capillary optics group effort to make microbeams of x-rays by squeezing them to micron dimensions with hollow tapered glass capillaries. Our group continues to explore the application of such tiny x-ray beams to the study of thin polymer fibers, single protein crystals, works of art history and antiquity, and polycrystalline samples of interest to materials science, etc. A good summary of most of the this work is now contained in the PhD thesis of Sterling Cornaby (PhD in AEP in 2008) titled "Handbook of X-ray Single-bounce Monocapillary Optics".
Current Research Projects
Co-PI with other investigators on:
Operation of Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Source (CHESS), NSF (DMR 0225180), 04/01/03 - 03/31/09
REU Site: Accelerator Physics and Synchrotron Radiation Science, NSF, 03/01/09- 02/28/12
Phase 1 Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) Synchrotron Light Source, NSF (PHY-0131508), 02/15/05 - 01/31/09
Macromolecular Diffraction Resource: MacCHESS, NIH, 08/22/03-06/30/08
Selected Publications
"High-flux hard x-ray microbeam using a single-bounce capillary with doubly focused undulator beam", R. A. Barrea, R. Huang, S. Cornaby, D.H. Bilderback & T. C. Irving, J. of Synchrotron Rad. (2009), 16, 76-82. ( 808kb .pdf)
"Silicon nitride transmission X-ray Mirrors", S. Cornaby & D. H. Bilderback, J. Synchrotron Rad. 15 (2008) 371-373. ( 382 kb .pdf)
"In situ synchrotron-radiation XRF study of REE phosphate dissolution in aqueous fluids to 800 ° C", C. Schmidt, K. Rickers, D. H. Bilderback & R. Huang, Lithos 95 (2007) 87-102. ( .pdf 821 kb)
"Optimizing Monocapillary Optics for Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Fluorescence Imaging, and Spectroscopy Applications, D. H. Bilderback, A. Kazimirov, R. Gillilan, S. Cornaby, A. Woll, C-S Zha and R. Huang, AIP Conference Proceeding CP879, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Ninth International Conference (2007) 758-763. ( .pdf 977kb)
"Microbeam High Angular Resolution Diffraction Applied to Optoelectronic Devices, A. Kazimirov, A. A. Sirenko, D. H. Bilderback, Z.-H. Cai and B. Lai, AIP Conference Proceeding CP879, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Ninth International Conference (2007) 1395-1397. ( .pdf 262kb)
"Focusing capillary optics for use in solution small-angle X-ray scattering", Jessica S. Lamb, Sterling Cornaby, Kurt Andresen, Lisa Kwok, Hye Yoon Park, Xiangyun Qiu, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Donald H. Bilderback and Lois Pollack, J. Applied Crystallography (2007) 40, 193-195. ( .pdf 211kb)
" Fish Otolith Trace Element Maps: New Approaches with Synchrotron Microbeam X-ray Fluorescence", K. Limburg, R. Huang, and D. Bilderback, X-ray Spectrometry, 36 (2007) 336-342. ( 472 kb.pdf)
"Design of Single-bounce Monocapillary X-ray Optics", S. Cornaby, T. Szebenyi, R. Huang, D. H. Bilderback, Advances in X-ray Analysis 50 (2006). ( 322 kb.pdf)
"Microbeam high angular resolution x-ray diffraction in InGaN/GaN selective-area-grown ridge structures", A. A. Sirenko, A. Kazimirov, S. Cornaby, D. H. Bilderback, B. Neubert, P. Br ü kner, F. Scholz, V. Shneidman and A. Ougazzaden, Applied Physics Letters (2006) 89, 181926-1 to 181926-3. ( .pdf 392kb)
"The Status of the Energy Recovery Linac Source of Coherent Hard X-rays at Cornell University", Donald H. Bilderback, Charles Sinclair and Sol M. Gruner, Synchrotron Radiation News, Vol 19, No. 6 (2006) 30-35. ( .pdf 563kb)
"Synchrotron high angular resolution microdiffraction analysis of selective area grown optoelectronic waveguide arrays." Kazimirov, A., A. A. Sirenko, Bilderback, D. H., Cai, Z. H., Lai, B., Huang, R., Ougazzaden, A., Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics (2006) 39(7): 1422-1426. ( .pdf 316kb)
"Multilayer X-ray optics at CHESS.", Kazimirov, A., D. M. Smilgies, Shen, Q., Xiao, X. H., Hao, Q., Fontes, E., Bilderback, D. H., Gruner, S. M., Platonov, Y., Martynov, V. V., J. Synchrotron Radiation (2006). 13(Pt 2): 204-10. ( .pdf 680 kb)
"Development of Confocal X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Microscopy at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source", A. R. Woll, J. Mass, C. Bisulca, R. Huang, D. H. Bilderback, S. Gruner, and N. Gao, Applied Physics A 83, (2006), Pages 235-238. ( .pdf 287kbytes).
"Single-Bounce Monocapillaries for Focusing Synchrotron Radiation: Modeling, Measurements and Theoretical Limits", R. Huang and D. H. Bilderback; J. Synchrotron Radiation 13 (2006) 74-84. ( 1347kb) Paper can also be found at the JSR web site at http://www.iucr.org/ .
"Strain Relaxation and Surface Migration Effects in InGaAlAs and InGaAsP Selective-area-grown Ridge Waveguides", A. A. Sirenko, A. Kazimirov, A. Ougazzaden, S. M. O’Malley, D. H. Bilderback, Z.-H. Cai, B. Lai, R. Huang, V. K. Gupta, M. Chien, and S. N. G. Chu; Appl. Phys. Letters 88 08111-1 to 08111-3 (2006). ( .pdf 287kbytes)
"Microbeam high-resolution x-ray diffraction in strained InGaAlAs-based multiple quantum well laser structures grown selectively on masked InP substrates." Sirenko, A. A., A. Kazimirov, Huang, R., Bilderback, D. H., O'Malley, S., Gupta, V., Bacher,K., Ketelsen, L. J. P., Ougazzaden, A. , Journal of Applied Physics (2005), 97(6): 7. ( .pdf 132kb)
Bilderback, D.H., Elleaume, P., & Weckert, E. Review of Third and Next Generation Synchrotron Light Sources, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 38 (2005) S773-S797. . Available on line at < http://stacks.iop.org/0953-4075/38/S773>
Research Interests
I work as an experimentalist in the use of x-rays to explore the atomic nature of matter using such techniques as x-ray diffraction, x-ray reflectivity and x-ray absorption and emission. My contributions to the emerging field of x-ray optics include the development of the first transmission x-ray mirror and various x-ray focusing systems made from total-reflection x-ray mirrors, multilayers, or Bragg crystals. I am also a developer of synchrotron x-ray sources and their associated microbeam and nanobeam technologies. Currently, we are designing and prototyping an Energy Recovery Linac source of x-rays ( http://erl.chess.cornell.edu/) that will surpass all the current generations of storage rings in producing high spectral brightness and the smallest x-ray nanobeams for research. We are on a quest to make a 1 nm diameter nanobeam at an x-ray energy of 10 keV (about a 1 Angstrom wavelength).
Over the years, I have worked to better ways to cool silicon monochromator crystals with microgroove cooling channels built into the optics - and this quest lead to the discovery that cryogenically-cooling silicon optics has tremendous benefits. Thus many of the first monochromator elements at synchrotron laboratories are cryo-cooled as a result. I am also helping to develop x-ray-sensitive CCD area detectors with many megapixels to improve diffraction-pattern images with the Gruner group in Physics.
I also maintain a capillary optics group effort to make microbeams of x-rays by squeezing them to micron dimensions with hollow tapered glass capillaries. Our group continues to explore the application of such tiny x-ray beams to the study of thin polymer fibers, single protein crystals, works of art history and antiquity, and polycrystalline samples of interest to materials science, etc. A good summary of most of the this work is now contained in the PhD thesis of Sterling Cornaby (PhD in AEP in 2008) titled "Handbook of X-ray Single-bounce Monocapillary Optics".
Current Research Projects
Co-PI with other investigators on:
Operation of Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Radiation Source (CHESS), NSF (DMR 0225180), 04/01/03 - 03/31/09
REU Site: Accelerator Physics and Synchrotron Radiation Science, NSF, 03/01/09- 02/28/12
Phase 1 Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) Synchrotron Light Source, NSF (PHY-0131508), 02/15/05 - 01/31/09
Macromolecular Diffraction Resource: MacCHESS, NIH, 08/22/03-06/30/08
Selected Publications
"High-flux hard x-ray microbeam using a single-bounce capillary with doubly focused undulator beam", R. A. Barrea, R. Huang, S. Cornaby, D.H. Bilderback & T. C. Irving, J. of Synchrotron Rad. (2009), 16, 76-82. ( 808kb .pdf)
"Silicon nitride transmission X-ray Mirrors", S. Cornaby & D. H. Bilderback, J. Synchrotron Rad. 15 (2008) 371-373. ( 382 kb .pdf)
"In situ synchrotron-radiation XRF study of REE phosphate dissolution in aqueous fluids to 800 ° C", C. Schmidt, K. Rickers, D. H. Bilderback & R. Huang, Lithos 95 (2007) 87-102. ( .pdf 821 kb)
"Optimizing Monocapillary Optics for Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Fluorescence Imaging, and Spectroscopy Applications, D. H. Bilderback, A. Kazimirov, R. Gillilan, S. Cornaby, A. Woll, C-S Zha and R. Huang, AIP Conference Proceeding CP879, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Ninth International Conference (2007) 758-763. ( .pdf 977kb)
"Microbeam High Angular Resolution Diffraction Applied to Optoelectronic Devices, A. Kazimirov, A. A. Sirenko, D. H. Bilderback, Z.-H. Cai and B. Lai, AIP Conference Proceeding CP879, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation: Ninth International Conference (2007) 1395-1397. ( .pdf 262kb)
"Focusing capillary optics for use in solution small-angle X-ray scattering", Jessica S. Lamb, Sterling Cornaby, Kurt Andresen, Lisa Kwok, Hye Yoon Park, Xiangyun Qiu, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Donald H. Bilderback and Lois Pollack, J. Applied Crystallography (2007) 40, 193-195. ( .pdf 211kb)
" Fish Otolith Trace Element Maps: New Approaches with Synchrotron Microbeam X-ray Fluorescence", K. Limburg, R. Huang, and D. Bilderback, X-ray Spectrometry, 36 (2007) 336-342. ( 472 kb.pdf)
"Design of Single-bounce Monocapillary X-ray Optics", S. Cornaby, T. Szebenyi, R. Huang, D. H. Bilderback, Advances in X-ray Analysis 50 (2006). ( 322 kb.pdf)
"Microbeam high angular resolution x-ray diffraction in InGaN/GaN selective-area-grown ridge structures", A. A. Sirenko, A. Kazimirov, S. Cornaby, D. H. Bilderback, B. Neubert, P. Br ü kner, F. Scholz, V. Shneidman and A. Ougazzaden, Applied Physics Letters (2006) 89, 181926-1 to 181926-3. ( .pdf 392kb)
"The Status of the Energy Recovery Linac Source of Coherent Hard X-rays at Cornell University", Donald H. Bilderback, Charles Sinclair and Sol M. Gruner, Synchrotron Radiation News, Vol 19, No. 6 (2006) 30-35. ( .pdf 563kb)
"Synchrotron high angular resolution microdiffraction analysis of selective area grown optoelectronic waveguide arrays." Kazimirov, A., A. A. Sirenko, Bilderback, D. H., Cai, Z. H., Lai, B., Huang, R., Ougazzaden, A., Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics (2006) 39(7): 1422-1426. ( .pdf 316kb)
"Multilayer X-ray optics at CHESS.", Kazimirov, A., D. M. Smilgies, Shen, Q., Xiao, X. H., Hao, Q., Fontes, E., Bilderback, D. H., Gruner, S. M., Platonov, Y., Martynov, V. V., J. Synchrotron Radiation (2006). 13(Pt 2): 204-10. ( .pdf 680 kb)
"Development of Confocal X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Microscopy at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source", A. R. Woll, J. Mass, C. Bisulca, R. Huang, D. H. Bilderback, S. Gruner, and N. Gao, Applied Physics A 83, (2006), Pages 235-238. ( .pdf 287kbytes).
"Single-Bounce Monocapillaries for Focusing Synchrotron Radiation: Modeling, Measurements and Theoretical Limits", R. Huang and D. H. Bilderback; J. Synchrotron Radiation 13 (2006) 74-84. ( 1347kb) Paper can also be found at the JSR web site at http://www.iucr.org/ .
"Strain Relaxation and Surface Migration Effects in InGaAlAs and InGaAsP Selective-area-grown Ridge Waveguides", A. A. Sirenko, A. Kazimirov, A. Ougazzaden, S. M. O’Malley, D. H. Bilderback, Z.-H. Cai, B. Lai, R. Huang, V. K. Gupta, M. Chien, and S. N. G. Chu; Appl. Phys. Letters 88 08111-1 to 08111-3 (2006). ( .pdf 287kbytes)
"Microbeam high-resolution x-ray diffraction in strained InGaAlAs-based multiple quantum well laser structures grown selectively on masked InP substrates." Sirenko, A. A., A. Kazimirov, Huang, R., Bilderback, D. H., O'Malley, S., Gupta, V., Bacher,K., Ketelsen, L. J. P., Ougazzaden, A. , Journal of Applied Physics (2005), 97(6): 7. ( .pdf 132kb)
Bilderback, D.H., Elleaume, P., & Weckert, E. Review of Third and Next Generation Synchrotron Light Sources, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 38 (2005) S773-S797. . Available on line at < http://stacks.iop.org/0953-4075/38/S773>
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