Synopsis
Beamline for experiments with a time resolution down to 100 picoseconds. Structural changes are initiated by short laser pulses and are probed by delayed X-ray pulses. The setup includes unique X-ray optics for intense polychromatic beams.
Status:
open
Disciplines
- Chemistry
- Life Sciences
- Physics
- Materials and Engineering
Applications
- Photoinduced phase transitions
- Chemical dynamics in solution
- High pressure physics
- Protein dynamics in solution and crystal
- Radiation hardness (single X-ray pulses)
Techniques
-
Laue diffraction
-
SSX - synchrotron serial crystallography
-
XES - X-ray emission spectroscopy
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XRD - X-ray diffraction
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Pump-probe
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XRR - X-ray reflectivity
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WAXS - wide-angle X-ray scattering
Beam size
- Minimum (H x V) : 25.0
x 25.0
µm²
-
Maximum (H x V) : 100.0
x 100.0
µm²
Sample environments
- 1-circle diffractometer with x, y and z sample position
- Tunable picosecond laser
- Tunable nanosecond laser
- Liquid jet circulation system
- Flow-through capillary circulation system
- Stopped-flow system
Detectors
- Rayonix MX170-HS CCD detector
- Jungfrau 1M detector
- GaAs and MSM photodetectors for single-pulse x-ray and laser diagnostics
- PIN diode detectors for intensity measurements
- Diamond detector for X-ray single-pulse diagnostics
Technical details
ID09 permits time-resolved X-ray diffraction and solution scattering experiments. One unique feature is the intense pink beam from the in-vacuum undulator U17 [1]. The U17 is a "single-harmonic" undulator tunable between 15 and 19.5 keV. The chopper system can select 100 picosecond, microsecond or millisecond pulses [2].
[1] M. Wulff, A. Plech, L. Eybert, R. Randler, F. Schotte, P. Anfinrud, "Realisation of sub-nanosecond pump and probe experiments at the ESRF", Faraday Discussions: 122, 13-26 (2002).
[2] M. Cammarata, F. Ewald, L. Eybert, W. Reichenbach, M. Wulff, P. Anfinrud, F. Schotte, Q. Kong, B. Lindenau, J. Rabiger, S. Polachowski, "Chopper system for single pulse experiments with synchrotron radiation", Review of Scientific Instruments: 80, 015101 (2009).
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