Beam time is allocated on the basis of scientific merit, following the recommendations of the Review Committees, and provided the experiment proposed meets technical feasibility and safety requirements.
Please do not hesitate to contact the ID21 beamline staff for detailled technical information.

Please check your proposal with the ID21 beamline staff before submitting it to the User Office.

For more detailed information, please follow the link http://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/UserGuide/Applying/

Preparing for your experiment

For detailed information, please follow the link http://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/UserGuide/Preparing/

How to travel to the ESRF, Grenoble, France

For detailed information concerning accomodations and travel, please follow the link http://www.esrf.fr/AboutUs/CompanyInfo/Access. The ESRF can be reached by road, air or rail.

Sample environment at the ID21 beamline

The ID21 beamline has ist own sample preparation lab next to the X-ray microscopes offering basic instrumentation for preparing your samples. Please ask your local contact for typical sizes and dimensions of sample support that can be put into the microscopes.

The ESRF provides different labs which are accessible for users:
The chemistry and microimaging/micromanipulation lab
EMBL support for biological experiments

If you wish to you some of the EMBL facilities, you should fill in the ESRF/ILL Biological Support Laboratory Form.

Please fill in the Chemistry laboratory form (.doc format or .pdf format): to be filled in and faxed to the ESRF User Office as soon as possible if you wish to user the ESRF Chemistry Laboratory outside normal working hours (normal working hours are: 8h00 to 17h00, from Monday to Friday);

Data transfer to your home station

An account on the ESRF Network Interactive Computing Environment (NICE) will be opened one week before your experiment is due to begin. The password for this account will consist of the first 2 letters of the main proposer's surname, followed by the complete experiment number.

Example: Main proposer's name is Roselyn MASON, experiment number is SC-243 = password MASC243. Experiment number, e.g. SC-243=SC243.

Workstations are available in the Guest House (for e-mail only), in the Central Buildung and at the beamline (ask your local contact). The password will be maintained for f o u r w e e k s after your experiment has finished. Data will be kept 30 days after the creation date. Both the account and the data will then be removed by automatic procedure, without prior notice.

For further information, see also http://www.esrf.fr/Infrastructure/Computing/VisitingScientists/

ID21 offers also the possibility to transfer data by DAT tape, CD-ROM and DVD.

Experiments report

If you have been allocated beam time for an experiment at ESRF you are required to submit a report via the Electronic Utilities for Users application. Deadlines for submissions of experimental reports are:

• 1st March for experiments carried out until July of the previous year
• 1st September for experiments carried out until January of the current year

If you are submitting a proposal for a new project, or to continue a project for which you have previously been allocated beam time, you must submit a report or, if necessary, a preliminary report - on your measurements via the web, and supply a reference to this report in your new request for beam time, by indicating the corresponding experiment number.

For detailed instructions for preparing your report, please look at http://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/UserGuide/ExperimentReports/Preparing_SubmittingYourReportFile/

For further information, please look at http://www.esrf.fr/UsersAndScience/UserGuide/ExperimentReports/

Publications

The review comittees are paying increasing attention to the quality of publications resulting from work carried out at the ESRF. Please remember to note on the proposal form the complete references of your most recent papers appearing in print, based on measurements made at the ESRF.

For each publication, we would be grateful if you could:

• mention the beamline on which you obtained data
• acknowledge assistance from ESRF staff
• remember to send a reprint for the Joint ESRF/ILL library

Once we have received reprints, you will find corresponding details under each beamline - "publications".