InterFace Beamline
dedicated to
Surfaces and Interfaces
The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) have jointly constructed and now operate the CRG-IF beamline at ESRF in order to propose powerful X-ray beams to french surface researchers. One third of the beamtime is allocated in counterpart to the european scientific community. This beamline opened at the beginning of the ESRF, was the first CRG Beamline operational. BM32 is now composed of technical and scientific staff coming from CNRS (UMR SyMMES CNRS-CEA/IRIG and Institut Néel), and CEA (DRF/IRIG/MEM).
CRG-IF beamlime is member of the 5 french beamlines located at the ESRF forming the F-CRG facility.
Last 5 years CRG-IF BM32 beamline science and capabilites are described in the report to the BeamLine Review Panel.
Two instruments are available to offer a complementary characterization of surfaces and interfaces in soft and hard condensed matter:
- (1) In-situ study of atomic layers growth under ultra high vacuum is allowed in the In Situ Nanostructures and Surfaces (INS) hutch.
- (2) The multitechnic goniometer (GMT) working in air offers large possibilities to investigate interfaces between different elements or states of matter.
A new instrument (since march 2006) designed for submicronic focussed white beam (Laue) diffraction:
- (3) Determination of the local orientation and strain (lattice paramaters) at submicrometre scale in microstructures and microobject (Laue MicroDiffraction)
Beamtime can be allocated by submitting proposals to two scientific program committees:
- French or CRG beamtime through French committees (shared with SOLEIL synchrotron committees)
- standard ESRF beamtime through ESRF international committees.
When choosing the suited instrument for your experiments during the electronic submission procedure please:
- for UHV + goniometer in INS hutch (former name SUV) select IF-INS
- for GMT goniometer (monochromatic beam) in GMT hutch select IF-GMT
- for Laue Microdiffraction installation (white beam) in GMT hutch select IF-µLaue
2ND proposal calls with new upgraded ESRF Extremely-Brilliant-Source
(1) Beamtime Proposals on FRENCH CRG-beamtime must be submitted at synchrotron SOLEIL (SUNSET server)
before the 15th February 2022 17h00 french time
for the period from end of August 2022 to mid december 2022. Beamtime is reserved to french laboratories, academic groups or teams with at least one french researcher, post-doc or phD student.
https://sun.synchrotron-soleil.fr/sunset/bridge/sunset/
(2) Beamtime Proposals on INTERNATIONAL ESRF beamtime must be submitted at ESRF users server
before the 1rst of March 2022 23:59 french time
for the period from end of August 2022 to mid december 2022. Beamtime is reserved to laboratories or academic groups of european ESRF contributors countries including France.
ESRF users portal
see more details in BM32 User guide
In case of troubleshoutings, issues with instruments & software, get prepared with your future experiments environment: BM32 WIKI
Beamline activites and capabilities are described in the pages of this website. Scientific production is listed in Beamline & Publications and with corresponding impact metrics:
The Google scholar profile contains all digital documents found in the web where 'BM32 beamline' appears explicitely in the core text.
Optics Hutch has been completely refurbished since January 2006. It has allowed to improve the X-ray Beam features coming in the two experimental hutches (flux, spot size on sample and energy resolution...) and namely to achieve a sub micrometric beamsize via a pinhole and two focussing mirrors.
By using large area and fast detector, Data Analysis has become one of the highest priorities of the beamline development in providing a full efficient measurements chain to users to investigate structural properties of materials. LaueTools software suite can be downloaded from gitlab.esrf.fr. It allows to handle, visualize, reduce and interpret data recorded by Laue Microdiffraction Probe.
In-situ characterization of thermomechanical behavior of copper nano-interconnect for 3D integration
Ayoub B., Moreau S., Lhostis S., Frémont H., Mermoz S., Souchier E., Deloffre E., Escoubas S., Cornelius T.W., Thomas O.,
Microelectronic Engineering 261, 111809-1-111809-6 (2022)
Polar surface of ferroelectric nanodomains in GeTe thin films
Croes B., Cheynis F., Müller P., Curiotto S., Leroy F.,
Physical Review Materials 6, 064407-1-064407-9 (2022)
Experimentally probing ionic solutions in single-digit nanoconfinement
Rébiscoul D., Baum M., Wang K., Tardif S., Larrey V., Siboulet B., Dufrêche J.F., Rieutord F.,
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 614, 396-404 (2022)
Grain structure engineering of niti shape memory alloys by intensive plastic deformation
Wang Z., Chen J., Kocich R., Tardif S., Dolbnya I.P., Kunčická L., Micha J.S., Liogas K., Magdysyuk O.V., Szurman I., Korsunsky A.M.,
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 31396-31410 (2022)
VHCF damage in duplex stainless steel revealed by microbeam energy-dispersive X-ray Laue diffraction
Abboud A., AlHassan A., Dönges B., Micha J.S., Hartmann R., Strüder L., Christ H.J., Pietsch U.,
International Journal of Fatigue 151, 106358-1-106358-10 (2021)
Energy-dispersive X-ray micro Laue diffraction on a bent gold nanowire
AlHassan A., Abboud A., Cornelius T.W., Ren Z., Thomas O., Richter G., Micha J.S., Send S., Hartmann R., Strüder L., Pietsch U.,
Journal of Applied Crystallography 54, 80-86 (2021)
Epitaxie de GaN sur substrat de graphène
Barbier C.
From: Sorbonne Université, France (PhD Thesis),
2021
Submicronic Laue diffraction to determine in-depth strain in very closely matched complex HgCdTe/CdZnTe heterostructures with a 10-5 resolution
Biquard X., Ballet P., Tuaz A., Jouneau P.H., Rieutord F.,
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 28, 181-187 (2021)
Corrosion products formed on MgZr alloy embedded in geopolymer used as conditioning matrix for nuclear waste-A proposition of interconnected processes
Boubon R., Nelayah J., Tardif S., Deschanels X., Rébiscoul D.,
Materials 14, 2017-1-2017-16 (2021)
Twin boundary migration in an individual platinum nanocrystal during catalytic CO oxidation
Carnis J., Kshirsagar A.R., Wu L., Dupraz M., Labat S., Texier M., Favre L., Gao L., Oropeza F.E., Gazit N., Almog E., Campos A., Micha J.S., Hensen E.J.M., Leake S.J., Schülli T.U., Rabkin E., Thomas O., Poloni R., Hofmann J.P., Richard M.I.,
Nature Communications 12, 5385-1-5385-10 (2021)
Growth-mode and interface structure of epitaxial ultrathin MgO/Ag(001) films
De Santis M., Langlais V., Schneider K., Torrelles X.,
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 33, 265002-1-265002-7 (2021)
Grain boundary formation through particle detachment during coarsening of nanoporous metals
Elder K.L.M., Andrews W.B., Ziehmer M., Mameka N., Kirchlechner C., Davydok A., Micha J.S., Chadwick A.F., Lilleodden E.T., Thornton K., Voorhees P.W.,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 118, e2104132118-1-e2104132118-10 (2021)
Simultaneous multi-Bragg peak coherent X-ray diffraction imaging
Lauraux F., Labat S., Yehya S., Richard M.I., Leake S.J., Zhou T., Micha J.S., Robach O., Kovalenko O., Rabkin E., Schülli T.U., Thomas O., Cornelius T.W.,
Crystals 11, 312-1-132-10 (2021)
In‐situ force measurement during nano‐indentation combined with Laue microdiffraction
Lauraux F., Yehya S., Labat S., Micha J.S., Robach O., Kovalenko O., Rabkin E., Thomas O., Cornelius T.W.,
Nano Select 2, 99-106 (2021)
Huge local elastic strains in bulk nanostructured pure zirconia materials
Ors T., Gouraud F., Michel V., Huger M., Gey N., Micha J.S., Castelnau O., Guinebretière R.,
Materials Science and Engineering A 806, 140817-1-140817-10 (2021)
Textures magnétiques chirales en couches minces épitaxiales avec symétrie C2v
Peña Garcia J.A.
From: Université Grenoble Alpes, France (PhD Thesis),
2021
In situ X-ray diffraction study of GaN nucleation on transferred graphene
Barbier C., Zhou T., Renaud G., Geaymond O., Le Fèvre P., Glas F., Madouri A., Cavanna A., Travers L., Morassi M., Gogneau N., Tchernycheva M., Harmand J.C., Largeau L.,
Crystal Growth & Design 20, 4013-4019 (2020)
Al-rich Fe0.85Al0.15(1 0 0), (1 1 0) and (1 1 1) surface structures
Dai Z., Alyabyeva N., Borghetti P., Chenot S., David P., Koltsov A., Renaud G., Jupille J., Cabailh G., Lazzari R.,
Applied Surface Science 509, 145312-1-145312-7 (2020)
Oxide at the Al-rich Fe0.85Al0.15(110) surface
Dai Z., Alyabyeva N., Van den Bossche M., Borghetti P., Chenot S., David P., Koltsov A., Renaud G., Jupille J., Cabailh G., Noguera C., Goniakowski J., Lazzari R.,
Physical Review Materials 4, 074409-1-074409-11 (2020)
Elaboration and characterization of a 200 mm stretchable and flexible ultra-thin semi-conductor film
Michaud L.G., Castán C., Zussy M., Montméat P., Mareau V.H., Gonon L., Fournel F., Rieutord F., Tardif S.,
Nanotechnology 31, 145302-1-145302-7 (2020)