Modern X-ray sources: from basics to data analysis

The range of applications covered by modern X-ray facilities stretches from atomic physics to biological processes. The mostly used techniques are: diffraction/scattering, spectroscopy and imaging/microscopy. We proposed to use additional scattered intensity between Bragg peaks, to improve the resolution of reconstructed structure and, in future, to develop a new method of ab initio structure determination that can solve the phase problem of classical structure determination. (authors)