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 2021 14h00 french time
for the period from end of End of August 2021 to March 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 2021 23:59 french time
for the period from end of end of august 2021 to march 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.
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)
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)
First stages of plasticity in three-point bent Au nanowires detected by in situ Laue microdiffraction
Ren Z., Cornelius T.W., Leclere C., Davydok A., Micha J.S., Robach O., Richter G., Thomas O.,
Applied Physics Letters 116, 243101-1-243101-5 (2020)
Synthesis of epitaxial monolayer Janus SPtSe
Sant R., Gay M., Marty A., Lisi S., Harrabi R., Vergnaud C., Dau M.T., Weng X., Coraux J., Gauthier N., Renault O., Renaud G., Jamet M.,
Npj 2D Materials and Applications 4, 41-1-41-8 (2020)
Decoupling molybdenum disulfide from its substrate by cesium intercalation
Sant R., Lisi S., Nguyen V.D., Mazaleyrat E., Gómez Herrero A.C., Geaymond O., Guisset V., David P., Marty A., Jamet M., Chapelier C., Magaud L., Dappe Y.J., Bianchi M., Hofmann P., Renaud G., Coraux J.,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 12397-12408 (2020)
Elaboration of nanomagnet arrays: Organization and magnetic properties of mass-selected FePt nanoparticles deposited on epitaxially grown graphene on Ir(111)
Capiod P., Bardotti L., Tamion A., Boisron O., Albin C., Dupuis V., Renaud G., Ohresser P., Tournus F.,
Physical Review Letters 122, 106802-1-106802 -7 (2019)
Epitaxial growth and structure of cobalt ferrite thin films with large inversion parameter on Ag(001)
De Santis M., Bailly A., Coates I., Grenier S., Heckmann O., Hricovini K., Joly Y., Langlais V., Ramos A.Y., Richter C., Torrelles X., Garaudée S., Geaymond O., Ulrich O.,
Acta Crystallographica B 75, 8-17 (2019)
Room temperature commensurate charge density wave in epitaxial strained TiTe2 multilayer films
Fragkos S., Sant R., Alvarez C., Bosak A., Tsipas P., Tsoutsou D., Okuno H., Renaud G., Dimoulas A.,
Advanced Materials Interfaces 6, 1801850-1-1801850-9 (2019)
Topological band crossings in epitaxial strained SnTe
Fragkos S., Sant R., Alvarez C., Golias E., Marquez-Velasco J., Tsipas P., Tsoutsou D., Aminalragia-Giamini S., Xenogiannopoulou E., Okuno H., Renaud G., Rader O., Dimoulas A.,
Physical Review Materials 3, 104201-1-104201-8 (2019)
Long term evolution of microstructure and stress around tin whiskers investigated using scanning Laue microdiffraction
Hektor J., Micha J.S., Hall S.A., Iyengar S., Ristinmaa M.,
Acta Materialia 168, 210-221 (2019)
Attractive interaction between fully charged lipid bilayers in a strongly confined geometry
Mukhina T., Hemmerle A., Rondelli V., Gerelli Y., Fragneto G., Daillant J., Charitat T.,
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10, 7195-7199 (2019)
Advanced coherent X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy of individual InP nanocrystals on Si nanotips for III-V-on-Si electronics and optoelectronics
Niu G., Leake S.J., Skibitzki O., Niermann T., Carnis J., Kiessling F., Hatami F., Hussein E.H., Schubert M.A., Zaumseil P., Capellini G., Masselink W.T., Ren W., Ye Z.G., Lehmann M., Schülli T., Schroeder T., Richards M.I.,
Physical Review Applied 11, 064046-1-064046-9 (2019)
Validity of crystal plasticity models near grain boundaries: Contribution of elastic strain measurements at micron scale
Plancher E., Tajdary P., Auger T., Castelnau O., Favier V., Loisnard D., Marijon J.B., Maurice C., Michel V., Robach O., Stodolna J.,
JOM 71, 3543-3551 (2019)
Impact of silica surface nanoconfinement on the microstructure of alkoxysilane layers grafted by supercritical carbon dioxide
Rébiscoul D., Israel S.S., Tardif S., Larrey V., Ayral A., Rieutord F.,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 12305-12312 (2019)
Carbon monoxide oxidation promoted by a highly active strained PdO layer at the surface of Au30Pd70(110)
Saint-Lager M.C., Languille M.A., Cadete Santos Aires F.J., Bailly A., Garaudée S., Ehret E., Robach O.,
ACS Catalysis 9, 4448-4461 (2019)
Regular arrays of Pt clusters on alumina: A new superstructure on Al2O3/Ni3Al(111)
Sitja G., Bailly A., De Santis M., Heresanu V., Henry C.R.,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 24487-24494 (2019)
Physical properties of interfacial layers developed on weathered silicates: A case study based on labradorite feldspar
Wild B., Daval D., Micha J.S., Bourg I.C., White C.E., Fernández-Martínez A.,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 24520-24532 (2019)