Synopsis

The beamline provides a high-brilliance beam focused down to nanometer size, allowing quantitative 3D characterization of the morphology and the elemental composition of specimens in their native state by combining coherent imaging techniques and X-ray fluorescence microscopy.

Disciplines

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

Applications

• Advanced materials
• Biomedicine
• Environmental sciences
• Energy
• Nanotechnology
• Neuroscience
• Plant science

Techniques

• CT - Computed Tomography
• MICRO-XRF - Scanning Micro X-ray fluorescence, Micro-XRF, μ-XRF
• NANO-XRF - Scanning Nano X-ray fluorescence, Nano-XRF, n-XRF
• NFP - Near-Field Ptychography
• PB-XPCT - Propagation-based X-ray Phase-Contrast Tomography
• PB-XPCI - Propagation-Based X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging
• PCI - Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging
• PTYCHO - Ptychography
• PXCT - Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography
• S-XRF - Scanning X-ray Fluorescence
• XFCT - X-ray Fluorescence Tomography
• XHT - X-ray HoloTomography
• XNHT - X-ray Nano-HoloTomography
• XPCT - Phase-Contrast Tomography
• XPCI - X-ray Phase-Contrast Imaging, PCXI, Phase-Contrast X-ray Imaging
• XRCT - X-ray Computed Tomography
• XRF - X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Sample environments

• Room temperature, in vacuum
• Cryo-environment (fixed, 100 K), in vacuum

Detectors

• Fluorescence:
  Two 16-element silicon drift diode detectors (based on FalconX-electronics, 16-element Ardesia)
  Fluorescence 1 & 2: by default used in parallel, data are combined during post-processing.
• Imaging:
  Scintillator: 20um LSO
  Default: Andor Balor 4096x4096 pixels (12um physical pixel size with 8.13x magnification and 2x2-binning -> 2.95um pixel size in raw data)
  Optional: lens-coupled CMOS-camera (ESRF-customized based on a Ximea-camera, 6144x6144 pixels, 10 um physical pixel size with 10x-objective and 3x3-binning -> 3 um physical pixel size in raw data)