Beamlines

• ID01 - Anomalous scattering
• ID03 - Surface diffraction
• ID11 - Materials science, time-resolved diffraction
• ID15A/B - High-energy scattering
• ID31 - Powder diffraction
• ID32 - Surface XRD, SEXAFS and X-ray Standing Waves
  
  

Synopsis

The beamlines of the structure of materials group provide facilities for a large range of diffraction and imaging experiments.  ID11 is a general purpose materials science beamline, allowing high-energy single grain studies, time resolved studies down to the millisecond timescale and single crystal diffraction down to micron sized samples. ID15A and ID15B offer facilities for very high-energy applications, up to several hundred keV, utilizing triple axis spectrometers, Compton spectrometers and imaging facilities. ID31 is devoted to providing high-resolution powder diffraction data. Beamlines ID01, ID03 and ID32 offer a variety of technique and sample environments for the study and analysis of surfaces, near surface structures and buried interfaces on the atomic to the micrometre length scale. The facilities are ideally suited to the study of samples relevant to the future developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Science

Fields of reseach include energy research, catalysis, engineering, metallurgy, electronics, semiconductors, MEMS and other aspects of advanced technology, with fundamental aspects of structural physics and chemistry.

Techniques

Structural studies by high-resolution diffraction and scattering from crystalline, polycrystalline, defective and glassy materials; Surface and interfacial scattering and diffraction; Dynamic, time-resolved and in-situ studies; Fast microtomography and coherent diffraction imaging; X-ray standing waves and high energy photoelectron spectroscopy.

Highlight areas

Nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Associated facilities

The surface characterisation laboratory at ID32 has several UHV facilities including a scanning-tunneling microscope and transfer chambers. Note also that Beamline ID10B is available for surface and interface studies using grazing-incidence techniques.

• Surface Characterisation laboratory
• Electrochemistry Laboratory
• Material Science Support Laboratory - formerly FAME38 - is a joint ESRF/ILL facility for the support of materials engineering applications.