ID16A - Nano-imaging Beamline

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

• Biomedicine
• Environmental sciences
• Energy
• Nanotechnology
• Advanced materials

Techniques

• Coherent imaging
• Tomography
• MicroXRF - micro X-ray fluorescence
• Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy
• Imaging, phase-contrast

Detectors

• Fluorescence: two six elements silicon drift diode detectors
• Imaging 1: high-resolution imaging detector lens-coupled to a FReLoN F_K4320 (2048x2048 pixels, 1.1 um pixel size)
• Imaging 2: high-resolution imaging detector lens-coupled to a FReLoN F_E230-84 (4096x4096 pixels, 1.5 um pixel size) and to a SVCam-HR16070 (4864x3232 pixels, 1.5 um pixel size)
• Far-field Ptychography: hybrid detector with 4 modules MAXIPIX detector