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

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

Techniques

• Coherent imaging
• Holography
• Imaging, phase-contrast
• Ptychography
• Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy
• Tomography
• XRF - X-ray fluorescence

Sample environments

• Room-temperature, in vacuum
• Cryo-environment, in vacuum

Detectors

• Fluorescence 1: two seven elements silicon drift diode detectors (Vortex-ME7, 7-element Hitachi)
• Fluorescence 2: 16-element silicon drift diode detector (based on Falcon-electronics, 16-element Ardesia)
• Fluorescence 1 & 2: by default used in parallel, data are combined during post-processing.
• Imaging default: 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; scintillator: 20 um LSO)
• Imaging optional 1: imaging detector lens-coupled to a FReLoN F_K4320 (2048x2048 pixels, 1.1 um pixel size)
• Imaging optional 2: 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)