ID23-1: Gemini - Macromolecular Crystallography

Synopsis

ID23-1 offers the opportunity to make highly efficient monochromatic measurements at energies from 5 Kev to 20 Kev with a flux of ~1-4 E12 photons/second and a variable beam size from 0.05 to 0.001 mm^2.

Disciplines

• Life Sciences

Applications

• Life science

Techniques

• MX - macromolecular crystallography
• MAD - multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Sample environments

• 100 K cryostream
• Automatic sample changer FlexHCD
• Mini-kappa goniometer
• Dehydration device and Rapid Exchanger (ReX)

Detectors

• Pilatus 6M (Dectris)
• Rontec Xflash X-ray fluorescence detector

Didier Nurizzo, Trevor Mairs, Matias Guijarro, Vicente Rey, Jens Meyer, Pablo Fajardo, Joel Chavanne, Jean Claude Biasci, Sean McSweeney and Edward Mitchell, "The ID23-1 structural biology beamline at the ESRF", J. Synchrotron Rad. 13(Pt 3) (2006) 227-38.