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Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets

¹Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Hochschule für Telekommunikation, Leipzig

The article describes a procedure to store optical data packets with an arbitrary modulation, wavelength, and data rate. These packets are the basis of modern telecommunications.

Chemistry

Microfluidic Chips for In Situ Crystal X-ray Diffraction and In Situ Dynamic Light Scattering for Serial Crystallography

Yannig Gicquel^*1,2, Robin Schubert^*3,4,5, Svetlana Kapis³, Gleb Bourenkov⁶, Thomas Schneider⁶, Markus Perbandt^3,4, Christian Betzel^3,4,5, Henry N. Chapman^1,2,4, Michael Heymann^1,7

¹Center for Free Electron Laser Science, DESY, ²Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, ³Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation, University of Hamburg, ⁴The Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging, University of Hamburg, ⁵Integrated Biology Infrastructure Life-Science Facility at the European XFEL (XBI), ⁶European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL c/o DESY, ⁷Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

This protocol describes in detail how to fabricate and operate microfluidic devices for X-ray diffraction data collection at room temperature. Additionally, it describes how to monitor protein crystallization by dynamic light scattering and how to process and analyze obtained diffraction data.