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The Spanish CRG Beamline for Diffraction and Spectroscopy |
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The main goal of the interdisciplinary and multipurpose Spanish CRG BM25-SpLine beamline is to satisfy the needs of the use of synchrotron radiation in the region of hard X-rays of the Spanish scientific community, with a broad range of interests crossing very different research areas: physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, environmental sciences, and cultural heritage. The Spanish CRG BM25-SpLine beamline is dedicated to structural investigations using hard X-ray scattering mostly in materials science, specialized on the combination of diffraction and spectroscopy techniques. |
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The Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU) through the former Secretaría General del Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico proposed in 1996 to the ESRF the construction of a beamline multidisciplinary and multipurpose as a Collaboration Research Group (CRG). The Beamline was built through a coordinated project with the participation of different groups. The project coordination for the beamline construction was led by the ICMM-CSIC. The construction project has been regulated, followed, and supported by the Spanish Goverment through its Science and Technology Offices and Ministries. The beamline operation has started in 2005 and is regulated by a contract between the MICIU and CSIC, and the ESRF. The MICIU is responsible for the beamline operation and its accessibility to the Spanish scientific community. The MICIU appointed the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC) as the beamline management body based in an agreement contract signed between both parties. The Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (Materials Science Institute of Madrid - ICMM: www.icmm.csic.es), from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is in charge of the operation of the beamline.
Applications
- Catalysis - Energy storage
- Solar cells - Nanomagnetism and spintronics
- Functional materials - Strongly correlated systems
- Microelectronic devices - Surface dynamics
- Materials and Engineering - Physics
- Chemistry - Cultural Heritage
Techniques
- GI-XRD - Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction - RSM - Reciprocal Space Mapping
- XRR - X-Ray Reflectivity -PXRD - Powder X-Ray Diffraction
- SCD - Single Crystal Diffraction - SXRD - Surface X-Ray Diffraction
- HAXPES - Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrocopy
- XANES - X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure
- GI-XRF - Grazing Incidence X-Ray Fluorescence
Energy range
5.0 - 39.5 keV
Beam size
- Minimum (H x V): 50 x 50 µm2
- Maximum (H x V): 1000 x 1000 µm2
Detectors
- Point detectors + Crystal Analyzer for high resolution measurements
- Medium size Eiger 2X CdTe 1M and 2M for high data throughput
- Small 2D pixel detector for variable resolution
- Polarization analysis detector
- Single solid state fluorescence detector
- High voltage electrostatic analyzer (Electron kinetic energy up to 15 keV)
Sample environments
- Ambient pressure and high temperature reactor - Electrochemistry cell
- Solid-liquid interface cell - Liquid-powder cell
- Ultra High vacuum - Thermal gas cracker
- variable temperature (10 K - 1500 K) set-ups
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy evaporators
- Organic Material Effusion cell
- Ambient pressure mass spectrometer
- Capillary and flat plate (100K - 1300K)