Synopsis

BM01 provides a wide range of synchrotron diffraction techniques, including powder, single-crystal, and grazing-incidence diffraction, high-resolution reciprocal space mapping, small-angle scattering, and multimodal approaches. The beamline is primarily dedicated to in-situ and operando studies of energy-related materials and processes. It operates as part of the CRG Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines (SNBL).

Disciplines

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Materials and Engineering
• Environmental Sciences
• Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Life Sciences

Applications

• Energy
• Solid state physics and chemistry
• Advanced materials
• In-situ and operando crystallography

Techniques

• GIXRD - Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction
• HP-XRD - High-Pressure X-ray Diffraction
• HT-XRD - High-Temperature X-ray Diffraction
• SAXS - Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
• SCXRD - Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, SC-XRD, SCD, SXRD
• WAXS - Wide-angle X-ray Scattering
• XDS - X-ray Diffuse Scattering
• XRD - X-ray Diffraction
• XRPD - X-ray Powder Diffraction

Sample environments

• Electrochemical cells, Multi-cell operando electrochemical setup
• Low temperatures: CryoVac 2-300K
• High temperatures: locally developed heaters, from 22C to 1500C
• Hydrostatic pressure: 1-1000 bars
• Gas pressure system: 0-40 bars, Gas loading manifold
• Electric field: 0-1 kV, for single crystals and thin films

Detectors

• Dectris Pilatus 2M (WAXS)
• Dectris Pilatus 2M (SAXS)

Reference publications:

Dyadkin, V., Pattison, Ph., Dmitriev, V., Chernyshov, D. A new multipurpose diffractometer PILATUS@SNBL J. Synchrotron Rad., 23, 3, 2016

Marshall, K. P., Emerich, H., McMonagle, C. J., Fuller, C. A., Dyadkin, V., Chernyshov, D. & van Beek, W. (2023). J. Synchrotron Rad. 30, 267-272.

Drozhzhin, O. A., Tereshchenko, I. V., Emerich, H., Antipov, E. V., Abakumov, A. M. & Chernyshov, D. (2018). J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 468-472.