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BM32

Status:  open

Disciplines

  • Physics
  • Materials and Engineering
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Cultural Heritage

Applications

  • Strain/structure on nano-objects on surface
  • Structure of buried (encapsulated) interface
  • Energy
  • Metallurgy
  • Applied materials
  • Mechanics at micrometre scale
  • Fundamental growth mechanisms

Techniques

  • GID - grazing incidence diffraction
  • GISAXS - grazing incidence small-angle scattering
  • XRR - X-ray reflectivity
  • DAFS - diffraction anomalous fine structure
  • XRD - X-ray diffraction
  • Laue diffraction

Energy range

  • 5.0 - 30.0  keV

Beam size

  • Minimum (H x V) : 500.0 x 700.0  nm²
  • Maximum (H x V) : 500.0 x 300.0  µm²

Sample environments

  • UHV
  • At air
  • Furnace (up to 1000°C)
  • Cryostat (down to 4K)

Detectors

  • 0D detectors (NaI)
  • 1D VANTEC detector
  • 2D CCDs: Princeton, MAR Research, Photonics Science, Pixel Detector
  • SDD fluorescence detector (Rontec)

Technical details

Laue microdiffraction and grazing incidence DAFS are available.