Project

Although it seems as a very busy period, the project provided lot of fun and relieve during the stressful period. The aim of those projects was to conduct a supervised research in pairs for several weeks and present the results during poster display on an open day.

The title of our project was Lensless Coherent Diffraction Imaging. However because of limited budget and equipment available, we had to apply the lensless X ray technique to visible light. The method is used for analysis of structure of complicated molecules, hence it has crucial importance in biosciences. In order to visualize the object that diffracted a reconstruction using inverse Fourier transform with its phase must be performed. In general, we were expected to use a software provided for the reconstruction. Unfortunately as the software was developed for high resolution X ray experiments it failed for our experiment. Therefore, we decided to develop our own software for the reconstruction, which at least doubled the amount of work required to finish the project.

At that moment, our project became real challenge and even more exciting. Development of the codes for reconstruction took very long time as we had to understand and apply the algorithms and the theory. In order to be able to finish the project on time, all time available including nights had to be allocated for the project. In the end, the results were obtained few hours before poster display and the project attracted attention of many academics and researchers visiting the presentations and Open Day. Overall, my lab partner and I had the best time of the year.