ID27 - High Pressure Beamline

Synopsis

Beamline ID27 is a premier X-ray powder and single crystal diffraction station (microfocus) primarily dedicated to research at extreme pressures and temperatures.

Disciplines

• Physics
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Materials and Engineering
• Chemistry
• Environmental Sciences
• Life Sciences

Applications

• Earth and planetary sciences
• Fundamental physics
• Chemistry
• Materials research
• Biophysics/biochemistry
• Life and biological function under extreme conditions.

Techniques

• Powder diffraction
• XRD - X-ray diffraction
• XRF - X-ray fluorescence
• XRS - X-ray Raman scattering

Sample environments

• Double sided laser heating diamond anvil cell (YAG and CO2; T up to 5000K)
• High pressure He flow cryostat (T down to 5K)
• Resistively heated diamond anvil cell (T up 1000 K)
• Paris-Edinburgh cell

Detectors

• MAR345 and MAR165 planar detectors

Technical details

Beamline ID27 has been operating since 2006 in replacement of ID30 (an instrument which was mostly dedicated to white beam experimentation). This instrument is fully optimised for monochromatic high-resolution XRD in order to address the most exciting and challenging questions related to science at very high pressures. The beamline can easily accommodate very complex sample environments such as a double-sided laser heating system, Paris-Edinburgh press and HP helium cryostat. Techniques available are powder and single-crystal microdiffraction, X-ray microfluorescence, and in situ Raman scattering.