Dear Richard,

You have sent the e-mail below to Francesco De Carlo a few days ago.
He has forwarded your e-mail to me because I am the scientist who has
interest and capability to help you.

Over the last few years,  I have developed  high-resolution x-ray
topography capabiliy at the APS. We have studied a few different materials
including diamonds.   Specifically, we have studied the effect of etching
for removing surface strain on high-pressured and high-temperature grown
diamonds.  We also have collaboration on investigating the crystalline
defects for CVD grown diamonds.

I believe that we have appropriate experties and instrumentational
capabilities that could be useful to you for investigating the structural
details of the diamond crystals.   Currenlty, we are developing ccd-based
quantative analysis methods to resolve the strain and lattice distortion
with a spatial resoltuion down to about 1 micron.  Thus, both qualitative
and quantitative characterizations can be readily made.

Since the APS is the User Facilities, there are specific guide-lines for
applying for the beamtime needed for the research.   I am quite eager to
help you through the appropriate procedures neccessary for this.  In
addition, if you are interested in quick measurement outside of formal
process,  I would see if this can be done for one sample..

I am carbon-copying this e-mail to my postdoc, Yuncheng Zhong, who is 
developing the quantitative methods for analyzing the x-ray topographs.
I am sure that he also would be interested in knowing more about your
research.

I propose we talk over the phone to find out our mutual interests and
how this can be achieved.   I will be available for most of Today and
next week.  So, I would appreciate your calling me to discuss the details.

I am sending you some of the published x-ray topograph studies that were
performed at our beamline.

Sincerely,
Yong  Chu