High-resolution three-dimensional x-ray microscopy

This issue of MRS Bulletin focuses on the rapid progress that is ongoing in the development of hard x-ray microscopies with three-dimensional spatial resolutions ranging from micrometers to nanometers. The individual articles provide a crosscut of developments in hard x-ray projection tomography microscopy for imaging density and chemical fluctuations in crystalline and noncrystalline materials; large-angle diffraction-based, spatially resolved imaging of local structure, orientation, and strain distributions in crystalline materials; and emerging coherent diffraction imaging for nanometer-range Fourier transform imaging of crystalline and noncrystalline materials.