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March 2024 ESRFnews
USER CORNER
•
1 March – 30 July 2024 Scheduling period 2024/I
•
25–26 April 2024 BeamTime Allocation Panel
meetings for 2024/II
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27 August 2024 – 28 February 2025 Scheduling period 2024/II
• 10 September 2024
Submission deadline for
standard and BAG proposals
for 2025/I
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13 September 2024 Experiment report submission
deadline for experiments from
2024/I
Users with questions, comments and
ideas are welcome to contact the User
Organisation Committee (UOC) at any
time. Representatives of each scientific
community and their contact details
can be found at www.esrf.eu/UOC.
ESRF contacts: www.esrf.eu/Contacts.
KEY CONTACTS DATES FOR THE DIARY
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Guillaume Morard, chair of the UOC.
ID21
The commissioning of the new
X-ray nanoscope (above) started
in December. First alignments
of the KB mirrors delivered a
beam size of 160 × 160 nm². This
nanoscope has been designed for
nano-XRF and nano-XANES in the
energy range 2.1–11 keV. First user
experiments with the instrument
are planned for this spring.
ID11
Switching between phase
contrast PCT and diffraction
contrast tomography DCT at
ID11 is now faster due to the
installation of a second Marana
sCMOS detector These
complement the Eiger2 4M
CdTe detector on the
nanofocus station which offers
photon counting diffraction at
up to 500 fps and 70 keV
ID01
BM01
BM02
BM05
BM07
BM08
BM14
BM16
BM20
BM23
BM25
BM26
BM28
BM29
BM30
BM31
BM32
ID02
ID03
ID06
ID09
ID10
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ID12
ID13
ID16
ID17
ID18
ID19
ID20
ID21
ID22
ID23
ID24
ID26
ID27
ID28
ID29
ID30
ID31
ID32
ID15
CM01
HPLF
BM18
ID14
Explore the ESRF beamlines through webinars
Monthly 30minute webinars showcasing ESRF
beamlines are organised by the User Organisation
Committee to help users stay up to date with the latest
instrument improvements and possibilities offered by the
new Extremely Brilliant Source To replay a webinar or to
check what beamlines will be presented in the coming
weeks visit wwwesrffrUOCWebinarseries
ID03
Commissioning of the new beamline
continues. All beamline components
have been delivered and installed,
with the exception of the goniometer,
which is undergoing metrology for
the on-site acceptance test. The
first set of user proposals has
been selected and the experiments
are scheduled for March to August
this year
ID24
Starting from the proposal call of March 2024 (for experiments
scheduled after the end of August 2024), the two branches of ID24
will be split administratively into two entities corresponding to the two
end-stations: ID24-ED (XAS beamline for ultrafast experiments and
extreme conditions) and ID24-DCM (high-brilliance X-ray absorption
spectroscopy beamline).
ID26
A Pilatus 100k pixel detector has been commissioned in the
vacuum chamber of the tender X-ray spectrometer. The noise level
is very low, down to 2 keV, allowing measurements on, for example,
sulphur- and phosphorus-containing samples. The new detector
greatly facilitates alignment and increases the detection efficiency.
BM28
The UK-CRG beamline has been
awarded a further five years of
funding by EPSRC, guaranteeing
operations until January 2029. Visit
www.xmas.ac.uk for a description
of the facility and how to apply for
beamtime. Examples of scientific
highlights presented in XMaS
annual newsletters also illustrate
the beamline capabilities, see
www.xmas.ac.uk/impact/
newsletters/.
Sample environment
New equipment for sample
environments is available and
adaptable for user experiments
This includes cooling systems for
tomography experiments on large
volume samples several flavours
of small tubular furnaces for fast
sample heating up to 1100 C
more powerful induction furnaces
for experiments up to 2000 C in
inert atmospheres new thermal
cameras and new catalysis cells