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Yong Chu

Program Manager, Imaging & Microscopy Program, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Yong Chu

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 743, Room 102
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5582
(631) 578-7916
 ychu@bnl.gov

Preferred Gender Pronouns (PGPs): He

Yong Chu is the Manager for the Imaging and Microscopy Program at NSLS-II,  overseeing the operation of the imaging and microscopy beamlines.  Concurrently,  he also serves as the director of the NEXT-II Project, a DOE project for constructing CDI, ARI, and SXN Beamlines at NSLS-II.   He joined NSLS-II in 2009, leading the construction of the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe (HXN) Beamline and serving as the HXN lead beamline scientist until 2022.  Before joining the NSLS-II, he worked as a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source.  His expertise includes X-ray microscopy, nanofocusing X-ray optics, and precision instrumentation, with broad scientific interests.

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

  • X-ray imaging and microscopy
  • X-ray focusing optics
  • X-ray diffraction and surface scattering
  • Precision instrumentation

Education

  • Ph.D. 1997:  Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana 
  • M.S. 1990:  Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana
  • B.S. 1989: Physics, California Institute of Technology

Professional Appointments

  • Imaing and Microsocpy Program Manager (2017-present)
  • Director of the NSLS-II NEXT-II Project (2023-present)
  • Lead beamline scientist for the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline (2009-2022)
  • Research Scientist at  Brookhaven National Laboratory (2009-present)
  • Beamline scientist at Advanced Photon Source (1999-2008)

Selected Publications

  • E. Nazaretski, D. S. Coburn, W. Xu, J. Ma, H. Xu, R. Smith, X. Huang, Y. Yang, L. Huang, M. Idir, A. Kiss, Y. S. Chu, "A new Kirkpatrick–Baez-based scanning microscope for the Submicron Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy (SRX) beamline at NSLS-II", J. Synchro. Rad. 29 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577522007056
  • Ajith Pattammattel, Ryan Tappero, Dmitri Gavrilov, Hongqiao Zhang, Paul Aronstein, Henry Jay Forman, Peggy A O'Day, Hanfei Yan, Yong S Chu, "Multimodal X-ray nano-spectromicroscopy analysis of chemically heterogeneous systems", Metallomics, 14, (2022), mfac078. doi: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfac078
  • Mingyuan Ge, Xiaojing Huang, Hanfei Yan, Doga Gursoy, Yuqing Meng, Jiayong Zhang, Sanjit Ghose, Wilson KS Chiu, Kyle S Brinkman, Yong S Chu, "Three-dimensional imaging of grain boundaries via quantitative fluorescence X-ray tomography analysis", Comm. Materials, 3, 1-11 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00259-x.
  • Pattammattel A, Tappero R, Ge M, Chu YS, Huang X, Gao Y, Yan H (2020) High-sensitivity nanoscale chemical imaging with hard x-ray nano-XANES. Science Advances 6:eabb3615. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb3615
  • Aaron Michelson, Brian Minevich, Hamed Emamy, Xiaojing Huang, Yong S. Chu, Hanfei Yan, Oleg Gang, "Three-dimensional visualization of nanoparticle lattices and multimaterial frameworks." Science, 376(6589), 203-207 (2022). doi:10.1126/science.abk0463
  • Hanfei Yan, Nathalie Bouet, Juan Zhou, Xiaojing Huang, Evgeny Nazaretski, Weihe Xu, Alex P. Cocco, Wilson K. S. Chiu, Kyle S. Brinkman, and Yong S. Chu, "Multimodal hard x-ray imaging with resolution approaching 10 nm for studies in material sciences", Nano Futures, 2, 011001 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-1984/aab25d
  • E. Nazaretski, H. Yan, K. Lauer, N. Bouet, X. Huang, W. Xu, J. Zhou, D. Shu, Y. Hwu and Y. S. Chu, "Design and performance of an x-ray scanning microscope at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe Beamline of the NSLS-II", J. Synchrotron Rad. 24, 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577517011183
  • H. Yan, R. Conley, N. Bouet and Y. S. Chu, "Hard X-ray Nanofocusing by Multilayer Laue Lenses", J. Phys. D. 48, 263001 (2014)
  • X. Huang, H. Yan, E. Nazaretski, R. Conley, N. Bouet, J. Zhou, K. Lauer, L. Li, D. Eom, D. Legnini, R. Harder, I. K. Robinson, Y. S. Chu, "11 nm focus from a large-aperture multilayer Laue lens", Scientific Report, 3, 3562 (2013). DOI: 10.1038/srep03562
  • Hanfei Yan, Yong S. Chu, "Optimization of multilayer Laue lenses for a scanning X-ray microscope", J. Synchrotron Rad. 20, 89-97 (2012)
  • Chu YS, Yi JM, De Carlo F, et al (2008) Hard-x-ray microscopy with Fresnel zone plates reaches 40nm Rayleigh resolution. Applied Physics Letters 92:. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2857476
  • Y. S. Chu, T. E. Lister, W. G. Cullen, H. You, and Z. Nagy, "Commensurate Water Monolayer at the RuO2(110)/Water Interface," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3364-3367(2001). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3364

Awards & Recognition

  • 2022 Microscopy Today Innovation Award for Multilayer Laue Lens Optic for Hard X-ray Microscopy
  • 2017 BNL Science and Technology Award
  • 2016 R&D 100 Award for the development of Hard X-ray Scanning Microscope with Multilayer Laue Lenses Nanofocusiong Optics
  • 2016 Microscopy Today’s Innovation Award for the development of Hard X-ray Scanning Microscope
Yong Chu

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 743, Room 102
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5582
(631) 578-7916
 ychu@bnl.gov

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