June 2022 ESRFnews12
1 March 27 July 2022 Scheduling period 2022/I June 2022 2022/II proposal allocation
decisions published 19 August 2022 28 February 2023 Scheduling period 2022/II 12 September 2022 Submission deadline for standard and BAG proposals for 2023/I 15 September 2022 Experiment report submission deadline for 2022/I experiments 6 8 February 2023 ESRF User Meeting
Users with questions, comments and ideas are welcome to contact the User Organisation Committee (UOC) at any time. Representatives of each scientific community and their contact details can be found at www.esrf.eu/UOC. ESRF contacts: www.esrf.eu/Contacts.
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USER CORNER
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Guillaume Morard, chair of the UOC.
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BM31, BM01 A new heater has been implemented at the Swiss- Norwegian Beamlines, capable of fast heating and cooling for kinetic studies and experimental time optimisation. It is calibrated using lattice parameter standards of Ag, Si and Pt, as well as with the melting points of Pb, Ba(NO3)2, NaCl and Ag to over 1100 °C with exceptional heating rates of up to 100 °C/min. Thermal gradients are minimised. Compatible with capillary gas-flow and pressure cells, it can serve a variety of in-situ and operando X-ray experiments.
BM08 (LISA) An X-ray powder diffraction station is available for users. A MAR-165 CCD detector is employed for collecting 2D diffraction images (see image, right). In a validation test, deviations of the refined cell parameter with respect to certified values was just 0.03%.
ID19 The hard X-ray beamline devoted to microtomography and high-speed radiography has had a gas gun commissioned and installed. The gun is available for use either under individual standard proposals or under the shock block-allocation group. See esrf.fr/BAG/MI1397.
ID12 A new instrument offers a unique possibility to measure (under the same experimental conditions): the element-specific magnetic properties with XMCD and macroscopic magnetisation; volume changes; and caloric properties of a bulk magnetic material as a function of magnetic field (up to 17 T) and temperature (5 325 K). Developed in the framework of the ULMAG Ultimate MAGnetic characterisation project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the instrument is a prototype for a future fully dedicated end-station (IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2022.3157001).
BM32 LaueNN, a novel way to index Laue microdiffraction data using artificial intelligence in real time, has been developed at the French CRG beamline. It is capable of indexing polycrystalline grains and labelling phase(s), much like Electron BackScatter Diffraction. Open-source code at pypi.org/ project/lauetoolsnn.
Data Management Plans (DMPs) are becoming a requirement for all EU and publicly funded research projects, therefore the ESRF has recently launched a new service to help. The DMP Wizard interprets the ESRF data policy for DMP templates from well-known funding agencies. Users should contact dmp@esrf.fr if they want help with writing DMPs for ESRF data.
IT General Users should note that generic proposal accounts are usable only inside the ESRF network due to concerns over cyber security. Individual user (SMIS) accounts can be used to transfer data from outside the ESRF and to access beamlines remotely. For more details, log in with your individual user account credentials to confluence.esrf.fr/x/UukGAw.